
J. S. SECRIST. 



creation, Time 
and eternity 

A BOOK DEVOTED to the UNFOLDING 
of the GREAT FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS 
AS FOUND IN SCIENCE, NATURE AND 
REVELATION. "THE GREATEST THEME 
THAT EVER ENGAGED THE MIND OF 
MORTAL MAN" 



A Comparative Work on Genesis and Geology. Darwinism on 
the Evolution of Man with Science, Nature and Revelation 
on the Creation of Man. The Unfolding of a World. The 
Seven Great Cycles of Time in Creation, Time and 
Eternity. The Great Unfolding of the Human 
Family and the Wonderful Types and 
Shadows of the Bible Used for This Pur- 
pose. The Ideal Man. The Great 
Laws Governing World Build- 
ing. Revelation Revealed. 

The Evolution of a Wcrld from a Nebulous Mass to a Sun. 

The Seven Covenants. The Seven Cycles of Time. The Seven Ages of Man. 

The Seven Kingdoms of the Universe. The Opening of the Seven Seals, etc. 

The Blueprint Outline of "Creation, Time and Eternity," in Brief. 



By > G S. SECRIST 



WITH NUMEROUS DIAGRAMS AND COMPARATIVE 
CHARTS FOR REFERENCE 



1911 

Brethren Publishing House 
Elgin, Illinois 






Copyright, 1911, 
By J. S. Secrist. 



CI.A303956 

no. r 



"And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only 
true God, and him whom thou didst send, even 
Jesus Christ." John 17:3. 



Truth 



"Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth 
by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. " 

John 12:24 



Presented to 



by. 



"What is truth ?" Pilate. 

"Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. " 

Jesus Christ, John 18:37 



"I am the light of the world." 

— Jesus 



DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD 
AND SALVATION OF MAN 



Introduction 

It fell to the lot of the writer to read in manuscript the fol- 
lowing pages and it is needless to say they were read with 
interest. And now the author requests that a few words be 
written as an introduction. As a rule the busy man, beset 
with the strenuous life of our day, skips the introduction and 
plunges at once into what the author has written, and wisely, 
too, for often the foreword blunts the appetite for further 
reading instead of giving mental zest for the feast in store 
for the careful reader. If brevity be a virtue then that much 
will be in favor of this effort. 

The author has gone over a large and most important field 
of research in his work. Science, nature and revelation ; 
" Creation, Time, Eternity," themes fraught with tremendous 
interest to every son and daughter of Adam. We come, 
we abide a moment, we go. Whence came we? what had 
we better do during our short stay ? and where are we going ? 
These are the most important questions that can occupy the 
mind. Our brother has given much time, thought and re- 
search to these subjects and the reader will find himself in- 
terested at the outset. That all will not be ready to accept 
his conclusions goes without saying, but those who criticise 
will be compelled to admit the painstaking effort shown in 
the work. 

The chapters on Typology, as well as the entire book, should 
have a careful reading and study. In this age of rationalism 
the types of the Holy Scriptures are being lost sight of and 
the author does well to give the subject a prominent place 
in his book. The New Testament shows how important and 
prominent the subject was in the time of Christ. He refers to 

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8 INTRODUCTION 

the brazen serpent as a type of his crucifixion and to Jonah 
as a type of his burial. Paul says the first Adam is a type 
of the second and that the paschal lamb is a type of Christ 
who is our Passover. Reference to types is made in almost 
every book of the New Testament. It was one of the promi- 
nent features of the teachings of the apostles and of the 
Primitive Church. There is danger in using types as evi- 
dence of doctrine but they do have their legitimate place in the 
interpretation of the Scriptures. The fathers of our own 
church recognized the importance of typology and cultivated 
it, setting their faces against the rationalism of their times. 
To the rationalist typical interpretation is but a mere dream 
and materialism has used its powers to bring it into disrepute, 
but with the revival of religion typology has borne some of 
its finest fruits. The indifferent reader, tainted with carnality, 
will never discover the beauty and significance of the types 
that foreshadow the things to come. These are spiritually 
discerned. 

The great Apocalyptic Vision, the closing words of the 
prophecy of the New Testament, which will be the better 
understood in the light of its own fulfillment, receives due 
consideration by the author. It is a great subject and is full 
of interest to the earnest Bible student. 

It would require a much more studied and critical reading 
of the book, than was given it, to write of all its features, but 
the writer was impressed with the fact that a valuable addi- 
tion has been made to our literature and he hopes that the 
book will find its way in many homes and that it will do good, 
thus bringing the full realization of the highest and fondest 
hopes of its author. D. L. Miller. 



Preface 

No other subject of such marvelous, surpassing interest to 
the human family, or of such height or depth or length and 
breadth, has ever engaged the mind of mortal man, as that of 
" Creation, Time and Eternity." It is rightly so. There is no 
lifting power in groveling below self, but to look into, through 
and on to the infinite beyond, is wisdom, power, strength. 

When we look at the stars and see their distance from us, 
their numbers as the sands upon the sea-shore, their excellent 
glory, we stand in awe and bewilderment. Yet when we behold r. 
law that governs them all with the utmost mathematical pre- 
cision, ever}' rational being asks for the truth, the cause of this 
mighty effect. 

When we behold our world, one among this mighty host, 
regulated and governed by the same laws, we are at once called 
to give it our closest investigation. As we proceed to investigate, 
three lines open before us: Science, Nature and Revelation. We 
eagerly ask ourselves the questions, Where did it come from, and 
how? And what will be its final destiny? Will science be able to 
give us a satisfactory answer? Science deals with material things 
demonstrated to the material senses. Will Nature be able to un- 
fold the truth? She is truth itself. But she unfolds through life, 
and is only the effect of a cause, and before this first great cause 
both science and nature stand dumb and answer not. Neither the 
past, present nor future can be satisfactorily answered on their 
basis. They themselves must be accounted for, with the very 
fact that they have a being. We turn to him who said, " If ye 
know the Truth, the Truth shall make you free." It is the object 
of this book to turn on the searchlight of Science, Nature and Rev- 
elation, upon " Creation, Time and Eternity," and to set before 
its readers the great outline plan as given by the Bible itself. 

1. — To set forth the truth in a plain, unbiased manner, fresh 
from the Book, and the Book only in comparison with science 
and nature. 

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10 PREFACE 

2. — As a helpful means, to see the matchless unfolding of the 
perfect laws governing the evolution of a world. 

3. — To more fully open the great outline plan of God in his 
Book, the Bible, and let it stand or fall in comparison, upon its 
own merits. 

4. — To see it as a whole in its concrete form from beginning to 
its end, instead of in its dissected, distorted and mutiliated con- 
dition. 

5. — To give to each of its readers "The Key of Knowledge," 
that they may unlock its deep mysteries and enter in and possess 
its richest, rarest and most precious truths. 

6. — That the barriers of Superstition, Ignorance, Prejudice, 
Creedism, Skepticism, Agnosticism, Infidelity and Atheism with all 
other isms and cisms, may be dissolved before the searchlight of 
the perfect truth. 

7. — That all who will read with honest care, may have every 
shadow of doubt removed as to whence they have come, what they 
are now, and what their eternal destiny will be. 

And they that are wise shall shine 
As the brightness of the firmament; 
And they that turn many to righteousness 
As the stars for ever and ever. 

—Dan. 12: 3. 

In its pages are unfolded in a plain, simple manner the great 
types and their antitypes of the whole Bible in a way that the 
common reader may easily understand them, and know the great 
outline plan of God contained therein. 

The Cycles of time, from the beginning of creation to the 
consummation of time, are illustrated and carefully explained so 
all may easily understand them. The chapters on Genesis and 
Geology, and on the Darwinian theory of the evolution of man will 
be found unanswerable and conclusive on those much misused 
subjects. The theory of the first race being a race of giants is 
fully sustained by undisputable facts. The flood and its cause, 
the age of prehistoric man up to modern times, cause of decline, 
etc., are noted with care. 

An outline of the book of Revelation, and the opening of the 



PREFACE 11 

seven seals, with a full explanation of their meaning is given. 
The first resurrection, the casting out of heaven of Satan, the re- 
turn of the Jews to Palestine, the second coming of Christ, and 
his judgment of the nations at that time, with the signs and time 
of his second coming are carefully noted and made easy of com- 
prehension from the book itself. The destruction of the Beast 
and False Prophet, who they are and when and how and why 
destroyed; the chaining of Satan for one thousand years, with the 
reign of Christ and his Saints for that period and the conditions 
prevailing at that time are made clear. 

The Devil's last stand against God's people and his final 
doom; the final and last judgment of this earth, and its results, on 
down to the second death, and the final restoration, the year of 
Jubilee, are all given in a clear, plain way, with their types and 
antitypes and scriptural proofs. 

This book has been written for those who love the truth, and 
will seek to know it; it does not fill its pages with the opinions of 
the best human authors, but is original in its scope and fullness 
of the Book of books. 

The author believes the greatest crime of our age is the low 
ideal and conception of the " Foreordained plan of God " as it is 
so often given by its would-be apostles. This volume will tell its 
own story, more wonderful, marvelous and grand, of God and 
Man, and the unfolding of a world, than all the wisdom of man, or 
wildest conjectures of the theorist, or imaginations of the poet 
or artist ever could paint with pen or brush. Read it with the 
Bible as a guide by its side. Let preconceptions and prejudice 
make haste slowly, and reserve opinions for later dates while you 
read this book and its side companion, the Bible. For more than 
ten years has the author been pressed in spirit, and continuously 
urged to write this work. Hundreds of lectures have been given 
along its lines of Bible interpretation, with the result of the pro- 
foundest approbation of God's people, and the complete silencing 
of the critics of the Book. May it go forth on its mission of 
peace and truth in the "Name of our Lord and his Christ." 

The Author. 



Synopsis of Chapters 



CHAPTER 1. 

SCIENCE, NATURE AND REVELATION. 

The Search for Truth — The Eternal Nature of Truth — Truth, the 
One Thing Needful — Nature Always True — Revelation, Pur- 
pose and Nature Of — Claims of the Bible — The Great Outline 
Plan of God as shown In — " Creation, Time and Eternity " — 
The Architect of a World — The Ideal 23 

CHAPTER 2. 

GENESIS AND GEOLOGY. 

The Bible Critics on Genesis and Geology — Rejecting the Bible: 
Its Effect — Intellectualism Against Faith: Its Result — Time in 
Creation and Geology — The Divine Key SEVEN 31 

CHAPTER 3. 

GENESIS AND GEOLOGY COMPARED. 

The Science of Geology — The First Creative Day, Gen. 1 : 1-5 — 
Second Creative Day, Gen. 1: 6-8 — Third Period in Creation, 
Gen. 1 : 9-13 — The Vegetable Kingdom — Fourth Period in 
Creation, Gen. 1: 14-19 — Fifth Period in Creation, Gen. 1: 20- 
23 — Sixth Period in Creation, Gen. 1: 24-31 — Creation of 
MAN 37 

CHAPTER 4. 

THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 

The Darwinian Theory of the Origin of Man — Effect of This 
Teaching — Quotations from Various Writers on the Evolution 
Theory — Fossils, Conjectures and Suppositions the Basis of 
the Darwinian Theory 47 

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14 SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 

CHAPTER 5. 

THE ORIGIN OF MAN (Continued). 

But Two Theories of Man's Origin — Darwin and the Bible — The 
" Ideal MAN "—Man as He Was at Creation— The Law of 
" The Survival of the Fittest " — Physical Perfection in the 
Early Types — Paleontological Specimens of Recent Finds. ..53 

CHAPTER 6. 

THE ORIGIN OF MAN (Continued). 

The Human Period in Geology and Creation — Giant Skeletons of 
Prehistoric Animals — An Elephant Twenty-three Feet High — ■ 
Will This Law Hold Good for Man? — Human Giants — Bible 
Accounts— Historical Accounts — Recent Finds of Giant Hu- 
man Skeletons from Seven to Fifteen Feet High — Finds of a 
Prehistoric Race of Giants in California— Prehistoric Giants in 
Maryland — Prehistoric Giants in Texas 59 

CHAPTER 7. 

THE ORIGIN OF MAN (Continued). 

Prehistoric Man a Giant Race — The Mound Builders — Giants in 
Mexico — One from Cape Colony, Africa — A Ten Foot Giant 
Found in Northern Russia — The Great Fixed Law — A Higher 
Order Must Succeed the Lower — The " Christ," This New 
Creature — The Self-confessed Failure of the Darwinian Theory 
— Rapid Changes Sweeping Over the Earth — The Cause of the 
Races Dying Out 67 

CHAPTER 8. 

THE AGE OF MAN. 

The Bible Critics on the Age of Man— The Bible Method of 
Reckoning Time Always Correct — The Climatic Conditions 
Before the Flood — Conditions of Man Before the Flood — The 
Flood— God's Plans Will Not Miscarry— After the Flood- 
Rapid Change in Earthly Conditions — Contemporaneous Chart 
of the Ages of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Abraham — Noah 
Lives to See Eighteen Generations — Transmission of Knowl- 
edge 77 



SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 15 

CHAPTER 9. 

THE SEVEN COVENANTS. 

The First Covenant, Made With Adam, Gen. 1: 27-30; 2: 15-17 — 
The Second Covenant, Made With Noah, Gen. 9 — The Third 
Covenant, Made With Abraham, Gen. 15; 17: 9-21; 22: 1-19 — 
Fourth Covenant, the "Law and the Prophets," Luke 16: 16 — 
The Type Church— Fifth, "The New Testament "—The Sub- 
stance of the Type Church, Heb. 11: 1-3 — The Sixth Covenant, 
the Second Advent of Christ — Seventh Covenant, "The New 
Heaven and the New Earth." 89 

CHAPTER 10. 

THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 

First, " The Ether Kingdom " — The Beginnings — Second, the 
" Mineral Kingdom — The Record of the Prehistoric Ages — 
Diagram of the " Seven Kingdoms " — Third, " The Vegetable 
Kingdom" — Fourth, "The Animal Kingdom." 9b> 



CHAPTER 11. 
THE SEVEN KINGDOMS (Continued). 

Fifth, "The Human Kingdom "—Many Different Nations— Their 
Origin — The Hamitic Races — The Shemitic Races — The Ja- 
phetic Races — Noah's Prophetic Blessing Upon His Sons — 
Their Fulfillment — The High Order of the Human Kingdom — 
Transition of the Human Kingdom — Sixth, the " Kingdom of 
Heaven " — Its Nature — Seventh, " The Triumphant Kingdom 
of Our Lord and His Christ" — Destiny 107 



CHAPTER 12. 

TYPOLOGY — A discourse on types. 

Types Defined — Why Employed — The Garden of Eden — Cain and 
Abel — Noah and the Ark — The Dove and the Raven — The 
Three Sons of Noah : Ham, Shein and Japheth 117 



16 SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 

CHAPTER 13. 

TYPOLOGY (Continued). 

THE TYPE OF THREE— Diagram of the Type of Three- 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — Abraham a Type of God — Isaac a 
Type of Jesus — Esau and Jacob — Their Types and Antitypes — 
The Repenting Prodigal — Restoration — The Work of the Holy 
Spirit — Israel the Prince of God — Jacob the Founder of the 
Type Church — The Twelve Sons — Types Of 123 

CHAPTER 14. 

THE CHURCH IN BONDAGE. 

Diagram No. Six — Joseph, Moses and Christ — The Development 
of the Church — Fulfilled Types — The Type of Forty — Noah 
and the Type of Forty — Type and Antitype of Forty in the 
Second Dispensation — The Forty Days' Fasts — On the Mount 
of Transfiguration — The Forty Years' Wandering in the Wil- 
derness of Sin 133 

CHAPTER 15. 

FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND. 
TYPES AND ANTITYPES. 

Egypt a Type of the World — Pharaoh a Type of Satan — The De- 
struction of Egypt a Type of the Destruction of the Jews — 
Diagram No. Seven — The Passover Lamb — The High Sabbath 
— The Wave Sheaf — Pentecost — Diagram No. Eight, Showing 
the Types and Antitypes from the Beginning of the Year to 
Pentecost 141 

CHAPTER 16. 

THE FORTY YEARS' WANDERING IN THE WILDER- 
NESS OF SIN — TYPES OF. 

Crossing the Red Sea — The Song of Moses and the Lamb — The 
Wilderness of Sin — Manna — Mount Sinai — The Tabernacle — 
The Temple — The Seven Steps from the Altar to the Holy 
City - 151 



SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 17 

CHAPTER 17. 

THE FORTY YEARS' WANDERING IN THE WILDER- 
NESS OF SIN (Continued). 

Sending Out of the Twelve Spies — Types Of — Moses a Type of 
Jesus — Who Entered the Promised Land — Type and Antitype 
— Caleb and Joshua — Joshua and Christ Jesus 161 

CHAPTER 18. 

THE FORTY YEARS' WANDERING IN THE WILDER- 
NESS OF SIN (Continued). 

Crossing the Jordan — Time of Crossing the Jordan — Diagram No. 
Nine — Order of Events on Entering the Promised Land — 
Diagram No. Ten, of the Special Days and Their Events — 
Types and Antitypes — Conquest of Canaan — Comparative 
Points of Types and Antitypes 169 

CHAPTER 19. 

PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN 
TO THE CLOSE OF THE AGE OF TYPES. 

Age of the Judges — Type of Forty Again — The Kingdom of Saul, 
David and Solomon — Forty Years Each — David's Forty Years 
— Solomon — The Temple — Its Typical Meaning — The Law and 
the Prophets 177 

CHAPTER 20. 

CYCLES OF TIME IN CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 
THE PERFECT NUMBER SEVEN. 

A Day in Prophecy — Seven the Unit of Time — The Beginning of 
Time With Israel — Type of the Unleavened Bread — Diagram 
No. Twelve, of the Unit of Time — Diagram No. Thirteen — 
The Seven Weeks— Pentecost the First Day 189 

CHAPTER 21. 

CYCLE OF TIME (Continued). 

The Seven Months — The Day of Atonement — The Feast of Trump- 
ets — Diagram No. Fourteen — Cycle of the Seven Months — 



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Type and Antitype of the Feast of Trumpets — The Fullness 
of This Type — Feast of Ingathering — A Common Feast for All 
With Joy and Gladness — The " Lovefeast " of the Early Chris- 
tian Church — Its Antitype 197 

CHAPTER 22. 

THE SEVENTH OR SABBATH YEAR. 

A Prophetical Day — The Day, Week, Month and Year in Prophecy 
— Diagram No. Fifteen — The Type of the Sabbath Year: Its 
Antitype 207 

CHAPTER 23. 

THE SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS: THE FIFTIETH 
YEAR A JUBILEE. 

Types and Their Antitypes of the Year of Jubilee — Diagram No. 
Sixteen, of the Year of Jubilee, and Its Cycles of Time — Ful- 
filling of This Type — The Doctrine of " The Final Restitution " 
— The Final Doom of the Wicked — Diagram No. Seventeen — 
The Seven Complete Types, the Finished Works of God — 
Diagram No. Eighteen — The Seven Creative Days — Conclu- 
sion 215 

CHAPTER 24. 

REVELATION. 

Introduction — Meaning of the Title — The Bible Its Own Com- 
mentary — Its Note of Warning and Triumph — Satan Defeated 
— Jesus' Last Message — John Commissioned by Jesus to Write 
Revelation— The Seven Churches — The Seven Messages — For 
What Purpose Given 227 

CHAPTER 25. 

REVELATION (Continued). 
John's Vision in Heaven — True Interpretation — Bible True to Its 
Purpose — Jesus Christ the Central Figure in Revelation — The 
Two Witnesses — The Book Sealed With Seven Seals Delivjred 
to Jesus — The Four Beasts — The Fifth a Lamb — Opening of 
the Seven Seals — Jesus' Glory and Honor — The Testimony of 
the Two Witnesses — Meaning of the Four Beasts 233 



SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 19 

CHAPTER 26. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Diagram No. Nineteen — The Seven Ages of Man — Showing the 
Seven Seals, and Their Time and Place and Meaning — Opening 
of the First Seal — The Marvelous Unfolding of God's Plan in 
Revelation — Opening of the Second Seal — Its Interpreta- 
tion 239 

CHAPTER 27. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Opening of the Third Seal — Its Interpretation — Opening of the 
Fourth Seal — Its Interpretation — The Awfulness of Its Fulfill- 
ment 245 

CHAPTER 28. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Opening of the Fifth Seal — The Christian Martyrs — The White 
Robes Again — The Dark Ages of Persecution — The. Beast and 
False Prophet — The Fifth Seal the Beginning of the First 
Resurrection — The Church in the Wilderness — To the Casting 
Out of Satan 251 

CHAPTER 29. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Opening of the Sixth Seal — The Last Decade of the Rule of Satan 
— The Second Coming of Christ — Signs of His Coming — Learn 
the Parable of the Fig-tree — The Return of the Jews to 
Palestine — The Declaration of Prophecy Full on This — Jesus' 
Promise to the Twelve Apostles — Ezekiel, Jesus and Paul on 
the Return of the Jews to Palestine 257 

CHAPTER 30. 

REVELATION (Continued). 
Opening of the Sixth Seal (Continued) — Manner of Jesus' Second 
Coming — The Reapers — Harvest Time — Work of the Angels — 
The 144,000— The Bride the Lamb's Wife— Many Parables, 



20 SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 

Types and Prophecies Fulfilled in This Seal — The Antitypes of 
the Feast of Tabernacles — Realization of the Glorious Fulfill- 
ment of Jesus' Promises in This Seal 265 

CHAPTER 31. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Opening of the Seventh Seal — The Highly Spiritual Nature of Its 
Work — The Divine and Human Side — Millennium or Thousand 
Years' Reign of Christ and His Saints — The Conquest of 
Christ — Type Meets Antitype — The Great Rebellion — Destruc- 
tion of the Old Beast, and False Prophet — Diagram No. 
Twenty — Map of Palestine in the Time of the Millennium, Ac- 
cording to Ezek. 47: 48 — Satan Chained for the Thousand 
Years — Ezekiel's Account of. Christ's Judgment Against the 
Rebellious Nations 271 

CHAPTER 32. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

The Gathering of the Nations at Jerusalem for the Great Battle — 
Christ's Judgment on Them — His Authority Established — 
Palestine and Jerusalem During the Thousand Years — The 
Condition of God's People During This Time — The Wicked- 
ness Still Great in the Earth — Close of the Seventh Seal — End 
of Time — Satan Loosed Again for a Little Season — His Last 
Stand — The Last Test — The End of Satan, and His Host of 
Deceived Followers 279 

CPIAPTER 33. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

The Close of the Seventh Seal — The Final Judgment — Basis Upon 
Which the Final Judgment Will Be Given — The Rule of Three 
the Basis of Final Judgment — Judgment of the Jews, Chris- 
tians, Reprobates and Heathens — The Saints Not Judged, but 
Will Be Judges— The Second DEATH— The Doctrine of An- 
nihilation — Who Share This Fate — Type of the Final Judgment 
— Sin Against the "Holy Spirit" — The Destruction of the 
Last Enemy — Time of the Final Rewards of the Faithful. ..287 



SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS 21 

CHAPTER 34. 

REVELATION (Continued). 

Dawn of Eternity — The New Heaven and the New Earth — The 
Year of Jubilee — The Evolution of a World — The Final Resti- 
tution — The False Doctrine of Restitution — The Holy City 
the New Jerusalem — Creation Finished: Time Ended, Eternity 
Begun 293 

CHAPTER 35. 

THE THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN AND ITS POWERS. 

Diagram No. Twenty-One — Body, Soul and Spirit — Mind the 
Medium of Control — The Holy Spirit in Control — Jesus Has 
Lived Our Life, With the Spirit Life Added to Give Us a Per- 
fect Example — The Three Temptations — First Temptation, 
the Lust of the Flesh — Second Temptation, Presumptuous- 
ness — Satan's Trap — The Third Temptation, Covetousness — 
Persecution, Satan's Last Weapon to Destroy Us — Victory 
Through the Holy Spirit. 299 



CHAPTER 1. 

Science, Nature and Revelation. 

The Search for Truth — The Eternal Nature of Truth — Truth, the 
One Thing Needful — Nature Always True — Revelation, Pur- 
pose and Nature Of — Claims of the Bible — The Great Outline 
Plan of God as Shown In — " Creation, Time and Eternity " — 
The Architect of a World— The Ideal. 

" What is Truth ? " This question has come ringing down 
through all ages and is before us still. Those who have ex- 
plored her realms the farthest have found themselves standing 
on the brink of a mighty ocean whose length and breadth 
have never been explored, and whose hidden depths have never 
yielded up their deeper hidden truths. Before this mighty 
ocean of " Creation, Time and Eternity " we all stand with 
troubled brow and perplexity of mind, eagerly scanning the 
distant horizon for the bark of truth that will bring us tid- 
ings from afar: but alas, while we pause and wonder, we see 
sun after sun sinking in its mighty billows, and our perplexi- 
ties increase rather than diminish. 

The greatest minds of all ages have asked this same ques- 
tion, then laid themselves the task of helping to answer it : 
some along one line, some along other opposing lines. Is 
the story of creation a truth, or must we look to other sources 
to obtain the " pearl of great price " ? Will science be able 
to satisfactorily explain the past and unlock its secrets? Will 
she be able to give us a satisfactory answer for the present, 
and satisfy the longing heart for something more enduring, 
and a hope beyond of a better life? Will she be able to look 
into the future and unlock its secrets and unfold it to us ? 

Science after all is only knowledge, and the knowledge of 
today, though a fragmentary truth, may be only a vapor 

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tomorrow. " For now we know in part, and we prophesy in 
part, but when that which is perfect is come, that which is 
in part shall be done away." — Paul. Science is knowledge, 
Art is the wisdom and skill of using it. Science that is false 
is not science, but all real knowledge stripped of error is 
Science, is truth : and truth is an ever present, an indestruc- 
tible, an everlasting principle : therefore, " If we know the 
truth, the truth will make us free " ; while anything to the 
contrary will leave us in darkness, doubt and fear, a poor 
anchor indeed to depend upon, with the certain knowledge 
that we shall come this way but once. 

We conclude then that " truth " is what is needed ; those 
great abiding principles which contain the germ o-f all that 
has been, is, or is to come. The germ truth, that this world 
was a globe, came near costing Columbus his life for advocat- 
ing it, nevertheless it made man free from the most -colossal 
error of that age, gave us a new world, and vindicated itself. 
So likewise comes the Man of Galilee to the world and says, 
" I am the light of the world : he that followeth me shall not 
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." For advo- 
cating this doctrine he was put to death; and it is the purpose 
of this little volume to put this great question before its read- 
ers, from the standpoint of Science, Nature and Revelation : 
fully assured that all truth will and must harmonize, or must 
forever be relegated to the rear as unworthy the name of 
truth. 

Nature is always a primary truth, which every scientist 
knows : and to work in perfect harmony with her, and keep 
her laws intact, means the attainment to the highest degree 
of success in her realms. The virtue of true science is her 
unfolding, and fuller development, while Revelation implies 
the reverse ; it purposes to unfold the hidden things of " Crea- 
tion, Time and Eternity," and reveal them to man in order to 
give him, not only a temporary truth, but an eternal truth, 
an everlasting hope based upon eternal principles. 



SCIENCE, NATURE AND REVELATION 25 

If the Bible is the revealed truth of God to man, its scope 
and plan must be in harmony with the Being who gave it, 
his plans must be in it, past, present and future ; his purposes 
revealed, — not only the details, but in outline as a whole. If 
it is revelation, then that means it is revealed, not hid, or 
made obscure and meaningless : yet such seems to be the popu- 
lar opinion obtaining among many of its advocates. On the 
other hand its enemies have assailed it from every angle, as- 
suming it to be the work of men, and have attempted to criti- 
cise it from such a standpoint. Taking the argument from 
this standpoint it would be the creature criticising the Crea- 
tor; and if the creature is able, really able to criticise the Cre- 
ator, then indeed he ceases to be such and from henceforth 
would have to take a subordinate position. 

It is the purpose of this work to look at the Bible from 
the standpoint of science, nature and revelation, to give the 
doubter all the benefits his doubts entitle him to, the unbeliever 
all the benefits his unbelief give him after reading it ; to eradi- 
cate as far as it may be the skepticism of the skeptical ; to 
give the great outline plan of the Bible as a whole, and to let 
it stand or fall upon the " SEVEN PILLARS " which her 
wisdom has hewn out as the substructure upon which she 
has builded her house. Prov. 9:1. 

CLAIMS OF THE BIBLE. 

The Bible claims for its author an Omnipotent God, infinite 
in knowledge and omnipresent, the Creator of the universe, 
and " upholding all things by the word of his power." Heb. 
1 : 3. The only authority it quotes is, " Thus saith the Lord." 
It makes no apologies for its demands upon man as a servant, 
or as a colaborer, or as a medium through which to carry on 
its work, but always speaks " as one having authority." Matt. 
7: 28. It claims to hold a conditional destinv over every hu- 
man being, of life and death. Its claims are as limitless as 
" Creation, Time and Eternity." Within its pages it claims to 



26 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

unfold and reveal these: does it do so? Is such a thing pos- 
sible? Can we grasp such a concept — the Creator revealing 
his plan to us as a whole? We at once perceive that this is 
the mightiest problem that has ever engaged the mind of 
mortal man. But may we not at least give the Book a fair 
chance to vindicate its claims from its own internal evidence? 
The author of this work sets himself the task to do this, and 
kindly asks the reader to reserve all criticism until he has 
read this book through, — every page of it, with a careful study 
of its original diagrams, and the original text with which it 
seeks to illuminate the Bible. 

THE GREAT OUTLINE PLAN OF GOD IN CREATION, TIME AND 

ETERNITY. 

When an architect intends to do a work, it is first care- 
fully put down in blue print, all the details are carefully 
worked out on paper, the object and design of the building 
are all gone over with a master hand, the material and time 
required to build it, and the skilled mechanics to do the work. 
It is built for a purpose. This is what the Bible claims. Be- 
ginning with a tiny model, it by degrees unfolds its great plan 
with a splendor and magnitude far beyond the conception of 
mortals. It is indeed an Evolution in Creation, before which 
we stand amazed ; before which the evolutionary concept of 
man pales into insignificance, and at most is only a visible 
effect of a great primary cause. 

Many eminent Biblical scholars have had glimpses of this 
unfolding as shown in the many types and shadows and cycles 
of time, and as revealed in prophecy; but as a rule they have 
only been fragmentary, or their value has been lost or marred 
by being made to serve some pet theory, or to bolster up some 
creed or hobby. " No prophecy of the scripture is of any pri- 
vate interpretation." 2 Pet. 1 : 20. 

It requires a mighty conception to grasp the great master 
plan as revealed between Genesis 1 : 1-3, and Rev. 21 : 1-7. 



SCIENCE, NATURE AND REVELATION 27 

"And he said unto me, It is done/' Rev. 21 : 6. "I am 
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." In Gen. 1 : 1, 
we see the Spirit of God move upon a mass of shapeless, un- 
formed matter. In Rev. 21 : 23, we see the finished product, 
a new world outshining the sun in its splendor. And yet in 
the mind of the Master Architect, all this was in blue print, all 
fully planned out before it was begun. 

' The works were finished from the foundation of the 
world." Heb. 4: 3. And again, in Matt. 25: 34, "Come, 
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world." 

God himself was the architect : " But he that built all things 
is God." Heb. 3 : 4. Jesus Christ was coequal with him in 
all the work of creation : " All things were made by him ; and 
without him was not anything made that was made." John 
1 : 3. Verse 10, " He was in the world, and the world was 
made by him, and the world knew him not " ; and again in 
Heb. 1:2, " Whom he has appointed heir of all things, by 
whom also he made the worlds." 

We can the more clearly see and understand the great world 
plan of development from the standpoint of revelation, when 
our comprehension of it is in accordance with its teaching. 
WTien God finished his work he rested, and put man in charge 
of the work and told him to go forth and conquer the world 
and subdue it, and have dominion over it and all that was 
created. Gen. 1 : 28, and 2 : 2. The natural man has in a 
large measure done this, and is still doing so now under vastly 
improved conditions than it was possible before the advent of 
Christ and the ever increasing light of the teaching he gave. 
But while he was the Conqueror and Subduer of this world, he 
himself was conquered and doomed to death. This is the 
point in redemption : " Thou madest him a little lower 
than the angels : Thou crownedst him with glory and honor, 
and didst set him over the works of thy hands : Thou didst 
put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he 



28 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not sub- 
ject unto him. But now we see not yet all things subjected 
unto him. But we behold him who hath been made a little 
lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of 
death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God 
he should taste of death for every man. For it became him, 
for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, 
in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their 
salvation perfect through suffering." Heb. 2 : 7-10. 

Much material is needed in the construction of a great 
building; much to the onlooker seems entirely useless, but 
the master mechanic knows it is absolutely essential for the 
completion of the structure. So in the economy of world 
building nothing is lost: the tiniest microbe, the smallest leaf- 
let, though small and of momentary duration, fill their time 
and space and add their mite to the sum total of the great 
universe. A perfect God must needs be the author of perfect 
laws, each of which has its particular sphere in which to work, 
and having done its work, hands it over to its successor, who 
in turn does likewise, only to be superseded by others until 
the work is completed and the master's ideal stands out in 
bold relief, the finished product of an infinite mind. This 
is the beautiful ideal held forth by the God of our Bible, this 
is the unfulfilled meaning of his declaration in Gen. 1:31: 
" And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it 
was very good." For his works were finished from the foun- 
dation of the world, and he foresaw their completion. As 
" Adam was only a figure of him that was to come," so like- 
wise was this first Eden only a figure or type of the one that 
is yet to come, so graphically and beautifully described in 
Rev. 21 and 22. While we find Satan in the first, not so 
in the second: up to the final judgment, Rev. 20:7-10, he 
was a necessity as a scavenger of the creation, exercising con- 
trol over his own and all that would be his, thus relieving God 
of their responsibility, as in Adam's case. In the last Eden, 



SCIENCE, NATURE AND REVELATION 29 



" There shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he 
that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are 
written in the Lamb's book of life." Rev. 21 : 27. Thus we 
see the chaff burner's work ends when there is no more chaff 
to burn ; and God makes even his work to honor and praise 
him. Well may the Psalmist invoke the whole creation to 
praise God. 

Praise ye Jehovah. 

Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens: 

Praise him in the heights. 

Praise ye him all his angels: 

Praise ye him all his host. 

Praise ye him, sun and moon: 

Praise ye him, all ye stars of light. 

Praise ye him, ye heavens of heavens, 

And ye waters that are above the heavens. 

Let them praise the name of Jehovah: 

For he commanded and they were created. 

He haith also established them for ever and ever. 

He hath made a decree which shall not pass away. 

Praise Jehovah from the earth, 

Ye sea monsters, and all deeps: 

Fire and hail, snow and vapor: 

Stormy wind, fulfilling his word. 

—Psalm 148. 



CHAPTER 2. 

Genesis and Geology. 

The Bible Critics on Genesis and Geology — Rejecting the Bible: 
Its Effect — Intellectualism Against Faith: Its Result — Time in 
Creation and Geology — The Divine Key SEVEN. 

It will be universally conceded that of all the questions con- 
fronting the Bible student, none holds a more disputed place 
than the account of the creation of this world as found in 
Genesis 1. It is our purpose in this chapter to make a com- 
parison of the account here given, and of scientific Geology, 
as well known at this time. We are willing to concede to the 
critics, that if the Bible account of the origin of things ma- 
terial as seen about us will not bear a critical investigation, 
will not harmonize with well known facts in science, it will 
cast a shade of doubt upon all the rest of it. But if we find 
that it does not, but on the contrary is in perfect harmony with 
all the well established facts of Geology and its kindred sci- 
ence Paleontology, then this cloud of doubt as to the rest will 
be forever removed, and the great fact of its Divine inspira- 
tion must be self-apparent : because no one will for a moment 
give the human author of Genesis the credit of having been 
such an advanced scholar in the modern science of Geology 
as to be able to write even an approximately correct account 
of it ; and to accredit it to guesswork, or the tradition of his 
age, is even more absurd, if the account is found correct. 

It has been well said that the greatest enemies the Bible 
has ever had have been some of its own would-be exponents. 
Among the many conflicting theories of creedism, fanaticism, 
ignorance and doubt, the materialistic scholar has turned to 
other sources for his information, and has developed his theo- 
ries from scientific investigation, with the result that his de- 

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32 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

structive criticism has brought discredit and doubt upon the 
inspiration of the Book. Their theories and doctrine of " The 
Evolution of Man " have taken deep root in the educational 
centers of the leading nations of the world; and not only so, 
but have penetrated into the remotest district schoolroom. 
But few of the modern common school text-books on Physical 
Geography do not lend credence and color to the " Darwinian 
theory " of the origin of man from the lower animals. The 
geological and anthropological exhibits at all the leading mu- 
seums of the world are based upon the same theory in their 
methodical arrangement. Is it any wonder that the teachers 
and ministers who receive their school training at these in- 
stitutions should be thoroughly tainted with this doctrine? 
Not any more so than that " like produces like," or that " cause 
produces effect." The scholar who rejects the Bible, with its 
account of creation, is driven to the alternative to account for 
man's presence on earth from some other source. There is 
but one other, and that is the Darwinian theory. Rather than 
look to the God of the Bible as his Head and Creator, he 
humbly acknowledges the Ape as his father. 

WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF SUCH A THEORY ON MAN? 

The originators of the theory of the evolution of man from 
the lower animals, and its advocates are infidels, atheists, ag- 
nostics or at best skeptics and doubters, though some of them 
get behind a pulpit. It is a most fruitful source of Athenian 
idolatry, the worship of the intellectual man to whom the 
preaching of the cross of Christ is foolishness. The result has 
been graphically depicted by Paul as the cause of the human 
family being plunged into midnight darkness, intellectually and 
spiritually, and with it, the lowest debased forms of physical 
degeneracy, licentiousness and idolatry. " For the wrath of 
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and un- 
righteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteous- 
ness : because that which is known of God is manifest in them : 



GENESIS AND GEOLOGY 33 

for God manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of 
him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being per- 
ceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting 
power and divinity: that they may be without excuse: Be- 
cause that knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither 
gave him thanks : but became vain in their reasonings, and 
their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves 
to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the 
incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible 
man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and creeping 
things." . . . For that they exchanged the truth of God 
for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than 
the Creator." Rom. 1 : 18-25. 

Paul's statement is a clear exposition of the cause of retro- 
gression in the past of the human family; and as effect fol- 
lows cause, so will it be, and even now shows itself in many 
ways. 

TIME IN CREATION AND GEOLOGY. 

One of the first arguments the critic holds against the Gene- 
sis account of the creation is that it claims that all things 
were created in six literal twenty-four hour days. Or more 
often perhaps this is the claim of those who really believe in 
the inspiration of the Bible, and have accepted this popular 
error as true. On the other hand the geologist looks at the 
strata of earth, laid down one upon another like the leaves 
of a book, and says, " Utterly impossible ; this must have taken 
ages to accomplish by any law we are able to ascertain." Ge- 
ology is certainly right here, but often indulges in the wildest 
speculation in regard to the time necessary to accomplish the 
work. Some statements place the ice age as having been in 
full progress over 240,000 years ago. Others (and among 
them some of our most modern men of good authority on 
the subject) claim that the ushering in of the ice period could 
not have exceeded 4,000 or 5,000 years ago. For time, we 



34 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

refer our readers to the chapters devoted to the " Cycles of 
Time," where we trust a most satisfactory answer will be 
found to this question. Let us look at the text as found in 
Gen. 1, in regard to the question of time, and see its own 
most reasonable interpretation of it. " In the beginning- " 
does not state how long ago, and no amount of guessing will 
change that definite fact. It is simply a statement of what 
was done " in the beginning," that is all ; it does not say 6,000 
years ago or any other time. In verse 5, we have this state- 
ment : " And God called the light Day, and the darkness he 
called Night." No indefinite statement in regard as to what 
he meant here. When he said " Day " he meant light, and 
that only; he said nothing about time, for what we now know 
as time was not yet in existence, and was not until the fourth 
period of creation. We see that the word dav was used in 
two different ways in verse 5 ; one to denote light, in the first 
place, and lastly to designate a period of time, as to the 
length of which there is nothing at all here stated, except that 
a certain thing had been done from the beginning to the end 
of this specified time here called day, from the evening to the 
morning, or from the beginning to the end. The very lan- 
guage indicates that in each one of the six periods of creation 
a specific work was done, always followed by a period of rest. 
In verses 14-18, we have the real key to the question of 
time. Here we have the earth taking its place in the solar sys- 
tem in its present relation to time. Light and darkness had 
not been divided in the three preceding periods of time ; 
though the formation of the earth had been steadily going on 
and it had advanced far enough that the veeetable kingdom had 
been placed upon it. In verse 14 you will notice that day 
and night had not been separated at all yet. It is a well-estab- 
lished scientific theory that the earth in this, its formative pe- 
riod, was in a chaotic condition just as here indicated: self- 
luminous in places and at varying lengths of time, not spe- 
cifically set in order of time, until the fourth period in crea- 



GENESIS AND GEOLOGY 35 



tion. Here then we have time itself made. The earth takes 
its place and revolves on its axis, thus creating our twenty- 
four-hour period of time. Its circuit around the sun is our 
solar year, and the moon in its circuit around the earth, which 
it accomplishes in 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds, 
makes the lunar month. Thus were the seasons, days and 
years established in this fourth great geological era in crea- 
tion. The word day as used in the Bible, and in our own time, 
is quite flexible, and is used to designate various ages. In 
Genesis 2:4," These are the generations of the heavens and 
of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah 
God made earth and heaven." Here it is used in the same 
sense as in Gen. 1 : 5, last clause, and in each of the suc- 
ceeding days of creation. Again it is used in a similar sense 
in Gen. 2: 17: " For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die." We will close this with a quotation from 2 Pet. 
3:8: " But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day 
is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as 
one day." 

THE KEY TO THE CYCLES OF TIME, SEVEN. 

We wish to call attention at this time to the figure seven in 
" Creation, Time and Eternity," as the Divine KEY through 
which God shows his mysteries, and unfolds the cycles of 
time until they merge into eternity. The seven days of the 
week are strictly arbitrary, being set side by God, the same 
as the seven weeks, the seven months, or the seven years : 
which see in the chapter on " The Cycles of Time, and Types 
and Their Antitypes." 



CHAPTER 3. 

Genesis and Geology Compared. 



The Science of Geology — The First Creative Day, Gen. 1: 1-5 — 
Second Creative Day, Gen. 1: 6-8 — Third Period in Creation, 
Gen. 1: 9-13 — The Vegetable Kingdom — Fourth Period in 
Creation, Gen. 1 : 14-19 — Fifth Period in Creation, Gen. 1 : 20- 
23 — Sixth Period in Creation, Gen. 1: 24-31 — Creation of 
MAN. 

We have seen in the preceding chapter that instead of sci- 
ence and Genesis conflicting, in regard to the time, there ex- 
ists, really, a beautiful harmony between the two, and no room 
for division or dispute. 

THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY. 

Geology is that branch of science that deals with the earth's 
crust, and has theoretically constructed its crust from the in- 
terior out as seen in the various upheaved mountains, their 
bluffs, and deep chasms. Beginning with the lowest layers, 
which are the oldest formations, and through the successive 
strata which lie one upon the other like the leaves of a book, 
it determines the age to which each part belongs by what it 
contains : its vegetation, the amount and kinds of fossil re- 
mains, with various other reckonings. 

It is this conclusive deduction of science that we want now 
to compare with the Genesis account of the very same thing. 
On page 39 is a simplified geological chart showing the geo- 
logical eras, with the six creation days, placed in their order 
in parallel columns. Let us now look at them in a compara- 
tive way. 

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38 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

FIRST CREATIVE DAY. GEN. 1 : 1-5. 

" The earth was without form and void." This is a simple 
statement that the earth was a shapeless mass of unformed 
matter, a mere nebulous star, such perhaps as may be seen 
on a clear night yet, even with the unaided eye. To this nebu- 
lous theory most astronomers and geologists agree, that this 
was the beginning of this world's existence. That it is still 
enveloped with a heavy atmosphere, laden with all manner 
of gases and vapors, a part of its original form, is well 
known to all. That the interior is a mass of molten matter 
and fiery gas, is, I think, also undisputed. All these facts 
clearly point to just what we are here told it was in the be- 
ginning. We are told that upon this mass of unformed mat- 
ter the Spirit of God moved. Critics agree that it began to 
move, or it never could have changed its shapeless mass into 
a beautiful world. But how, and why, they can not tell. 
No answer can be given, save the great first cause, " The 
Spirit of God moved upon it." 

Again we are informed that, " God said, Let there be light : 
and there was light." 

Light is the first law of life. This is an indisputable funda- 
mental truth. The source of this light we are not told, only 
that it was not the sun, as that luminary did not take its place 
until the fourth period of creation. At the bottom of the 
chart we have the first period, which from the point of time 
and geology, is now the interior of the earth. We see that the 
agreement is absolutely perfect from every standpoint. 

SECOND PERIOD IN CREATION. GEN. 1 : 6-8. 

In this, the second period, we have a division made, but 
notice that all is water above and below, with an open space 
between the upper anddower waters, just as it is now between 
the clouds and earth ; only at this period of the earth, its 



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crust was uniform all over it and consequently all under water 
as shown in the next period. In geology this is called the 
Archaean or lifeless period (see chart), because it is the most 
ancient geological formation, and is destitute of any signs of 
ancient life, containing no traces of vegetation or fossil re- 
mains, but is composed of granite rock of some kind. We see 
in geology again the best witness to the truthfulness of this, 
the second period of creation. 

THIRD PERIOD IN CREATION. GEN. 1 : 9-13. 

" And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gath- 
ered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and 
it was so. And God called the dry land Earth : and the gather- 
ing together of the waters called he Seas." All science will 
agree without controversy, that this was the next step in this 
world's progress. We must ever bear in mind that all the 
author of Genesis does, is to record a brief statement of chron- 
ological facts. There were no dates ; he gives the periods and 
order of time in which he did it, and what was done, — not 
how, but who did it. By looking at the great universal laws 
of nature as seen in their work on every hand, we see the 
work of God, and the mediums through which he works. In 
the separating of .land and water, we have the law of con- 
traction and expansion, caused by the action of heat and cold. 
The crust of the earth, which had just begun to form, was of 
a uniform thickness and evenness, and covered with water all 
over. As it began to cool and harden it also had to shrink. 
Take the illustration of the blacksmith and wagon tire ; — the 
old way of cutting a piece out of the tire, then welding it, and 
heating the whole tire to expand it so* it would go over the 
fellies, then pouring cold water on it to cool it off and shrink 
it, and we have a fair example of this universal law. In the 
case of the world's crust shrinking, it could not break in as 
the interior was full, so we have the mountain ranges broken 
up. Each one of these great ranges represents a seam in the 



GENESIS AND GEOLOGY COMPARED 41 

earth's crust, broken repeatedly, and at different ages of the 
world's history. These broken up strata of earth often act as 
flues to the interior of the earth, and become active volcanoes. 
That which was not mountains or plains, became seas, etc. 
This very same process is still actively at work, and will 
continue, until the work is finished, which see in the closing 
chapters of this volume. 

THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 

" And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs yield- 
ing seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein 
is the seed thereof, upon the earth : and it was so." By con- 
sulting the geological chart you will see the third day of cre- 
ation, in which we have our first dry land and the bringing in 
of the vegetable kingdom, and the primary or ancient life 
period, represented in parallel columns, just as the Bible and 
geology give them. We find in the first crust of the earth 
no traces of vegetable life, but in the next we do. Lying im- 
mediately above the fundamental gneiss, the next layers begin 
to show traces of vegetable matter, but not until you advance 
far above the first traces of vegetation do we begin to meet 
with signs of life of a higher order, — sea shells, crinoids, etc. 
Reason would dictate to us that a perfect God would act in 
perfect harmony with a set of perfect laws, of which he is 
the Author. The laws which we are pleased to call " The Laws 
of Nature " are perfect. Therefore we see the harmony in 
the orderly manner of the creation. As fast as the earth had 
advanced far enough, a new order of things was established. 
When the soil was ready, God created or planted the vegetable 
kingdom ; and this law, as we shall see, holds good until it 
has worked out its completed work, in the destiny of this 
world. 

FOURTH PERIOD IN CREATION. GEN. 1 : 14-19. 

As previously noted, in this period we have this world tak- 
ing its place in the solar system, in its relation with the sun, 



42 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

moon and stars. And for the first time in its existence, a 
division of time begins, in days, months and years, also in 
seasons. .From a chaotic state, it now begins its existence as 
an organized world, among the worlds. 

There is no deductive science among men that can really 
throw any light upon this subject from a mere human stand- 
point ; it is too deep. That it is a positive fact, a living truth, 
we all bear record. The inspired Author of Genesis alone 
dares to locate the time in creation when this world stepped 
out of its dressing room, and took its place among its sister 
worlds. Well may we say to the destructive critic, who doubts 
and wonders and gropes in his unbelief, in the language of 
God to Job, " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations 
of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who de- 
termined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who 
stretched the line upon it? Whereupon were the foundations 
thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof, 
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God 
shouted for joy? . . . Canst thou bind the cluster of 
the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou lead 
forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide 
the Bear with her train? Knowest thou the ordinances of 
the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in 
the earth? . . . He that argueth with God let him answer 
it." Job 38: 4-7, 31; 40: 2. 

This fourth period would naturally not show in the science 
of geology, and does not indicate here any cessation of the 
creative work already begun. And that the work of these 
creative days lapped over each other, there is no doubt, or 
reason in the text for disbelieving. The text is a very brief 
statement of the facts of creation : and in each case gives only 
the central truths of what was done in that great geological 
period. 



GENESIS AND GEOLOGY COMPARED 43 

FIFTH PERIOD IN CREATION. GEN. 1 I 20-23. 

" And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of liv- 
ing creatures, and let birds fly in the open firmament of heav- 
en. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living 
creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after 
their kind, and every winged bird after its kind : and God saw 
that it was good." 

A more graphic or truthful picture of the Secondary or 
Middle Life Period can not be written than stated by the 
inspired writer of Genesis in the above words. No mammalia, 
or land animals, in this fifth period of creation ; only the seas 
or waters are populated, and the birds of the air are brought 
forth. This is exactly what we find in geology. Following 
immediately upon the vegetation of the lower strata in the 
earth's crust we find these swarms of bivalves, crustaceans, 
mollusks, invertebrates, vertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles, 
sea-monsters, etc. And as time gave them opportunity to mul- 
tiply and spread, they increased and did indeed " fill the seas." 
We also find that birds flew above the earth in this age, and 
their remains are found in the same strata with the other 
creatures of that age, long ere we find any of the distinctly 
land animals. This fifth period, in which Gen. 1 : 21 says 
God created the great sea-monsters (American Standard Ver- 
sion Bible), is the Reptilian period in geology. Much of what 
is now land was at that time shallow seas, perpetually warm 
under a tropical climate, as the vegetation shows, in its abun- 
dance, size and kinds. These were the home of swarming 
millions of hideous sea-monsters ; huge bats with a spread of 
thirty feet of wing; the mighty dinosaur, or huge swimming 
lizards, some of which attained a length of over ninety feet. 
More than fifty species of this monster alone, have been identi- 
fied. The amphicoelias, which stood on all fours and attained 
a height of fifteen feet (3 feet taller than Jumbo) and sixty 
feet in length. The Atlantasaur was much larger. The four- 



44 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

toed Apatosaurus, a fine specimen of which was found near 
Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1901 by Paleontologist Marsh, 
and is now in the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. The 
skeleton of this mighty monster stands twenty feet high (eight 
feet higher than Jumbo, the largest mammal of modern 
times), and seventy feet long. 

We add this list as the very best evidence of the complete 
harmony of Genesis and Geology: it needs none other, it is 
self-vindicating. 

SIXTH PERIOD IN CREATION. GEN. 1 : 24-31. 

" And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures 
after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the 
earth after their kind : and it was so." 

Here, in the last period of creation, we have the mammals, 
or land animals created, — the highest in order below man, 
and in the first of the day according to the order of naming. 
This period in geology is the Tertiary or recent life period, 
and as we have seen in all the other days of creation, it is in 
complete harmony with the statements in Genesis. The sim- 
ple fact that any one animal or species may be found wanting 
at one place, is easily accounted for, as the conditions, or its 
enemies, or a score of other causes may have prevented it, 
just as they do now. All the readings of geology are exceed- 
ingly meager and faulty, when they attempt to go into details, 
while in outline as a whole it is entirely trustworthy. This 
fact is universally admitted by all scientists. The breaking 
up of the earth's crust caused all kinds of jumbling and tilt- 
ings and slidings of its strata. This often tends to confuse 
the geologist, — the wearing away of immense sections by ero- 
sion, and the filling up of great valleys and chasms in all ages, 
mixing the various geological formations. Again we find 
that a pre-conceived theory often decides the conclusion, and 
in such cases a little apparent evidence that is favorable may 
outweigh the real truth itself in the estimate of the one that 



GENESIS AND GEOLOGY COMPARED 45 

is seeking to establish it. We have an extreme case of this 
kind in the biased judgment of the Jewish Sanhedrin, passing 
sentence on the innocent Savior. 

The crowning masterpiece of the creative genius of God 
as recorded in Gen. 1 : 23-30 is MAN. That man was the 
latest arrival on earth, is an undisputed geological fact. In 
the following chapter the origin of man will be more fully 
discussed. In the comparison of Genesis and geology we have 
given a brief statement of both sides, in order to simplify it 
for the common reader, feeling assured that such a compari- 
son of fundamental truth from science, nature and revelation, 
as revealed from the extreme points of view by their ad- 
vocates, can but be the complete vindicator of the truth of 
the Bible. Thus we will be prepared for the fuller, deeper 
truths which lie hidden beneath the simple Bible story of 
God's dealing with man. 



CHAPTER 4. 

The Origin of Man. 

The Darwinian Theory of the Origin of Man — Effect of This 
Teaching — Quotations from Various Writers on the Evolution 
Theory — Fossils, Conjectures and Suppositions the Basis of 
the Darwinian Theory. 

THE DARWINIAN THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 

Charles Darwin, a celebrated English naturalist, wrote a 
work in 1859 entitled, " The Origin of Species," and in 1871, 
another work entitled " The Descent of Man." The theory 
in brief as set forth in his works is : that all living forms now 
existing originally sprang from one common parent stock of 
a single cell being ; the keynote of the theory being natural 
selection, or the survival of the fittest, — coming down through 
limitless ages in their developments and changes, gradually 
but surely unfolding along many different lines; some becom- 
ing extinct, others steadily advancing from lower to higher 
forms ; up through reptiles, birds, mammals, the various mon- 
keys, apes, baboons, chimpanzees, and at last Man ; man 
also coming through a long series of changes from the most 
primitive ape-like man, the wild savages, semicivilized, on 
up to his present being. 

This doctrine has been ably defended by many eminent 
scholars, among others Prof. E. H. Haeckel, of the University 
of Jena. He is author of a number of works on the subject; 
in fact, he devoted his life to the subject of evolution, and 
wrote a book on " the Evolution of Man," in which he sup- 
ported the Darwinian theory. A theory from such a source 
has gone forth along all lines of educational work, until it 

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48 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

has touched the remotest bounds of the educated and civilized 
world. Not only so, but its influence is severely felt, and an 
awful crop of infidelity, atheism, agnosticism and skepticism 
is now its harvest to reap. Many of our colleges have become 
hot-beds of infidelity ; and the teachers who go out from them 
usually are like them, or so badly tainted that the Bible ever 
after takes a secondary place in their minds, and is held largely 
as a book filled with traditions. The Bible story of creation 
is set aside as merest fiction, or as one eminent (?) divine 
proclaimed from the pulpit, " A poetical fancy." And this is 
a very common occurrence among a large and ever increasing 
class of the modern clergy, tainted as they are with this Dar- 
winian doctrine of the origin of man. 

In " Hinman's Eclectic Physical Geography," series 1897, 
published by the American Book Co., of Chicago, 111., we have 
this statement, in regard to the origin of man from the lower 
animals : " The development of man was due to the power of 
speech. Monkeys lacked that, though man sprang from the 
same line of beings. The difference is like two watches — the 
one stops because out of fix; the other goes on." It calls the 
Bible record, " tradition or history of 4,000 or 5,000 years." 
(The Bible shows its own record of the creation of man to be 
over 5,900 years, with six great geological periods back of 
that.) The result of this teaching is being felt more and 
more. The Bible, with its story of " Man being created in 
the image and likeness of his Maker," is now being every- 
where (in this land of the free) driven out of the back door 
of our public schools, while the monkey-made man comes bold- 
ly walking in the front door. 

All kinds of wild, speculative theories appear in our jour- 
nals from time to time. We give a few samples of these by 
way of comparison. Here is one that appeared in one of our 
western papers lately, after making the rounds of the general 
press : 



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HUMAN BONES FOUND MAY BE 170,000 YEARS OLD. 

" PARIS. Dec. 16. — Abbes Bouysson and Bardon, who are 
conducting excavations at Chapelle Aux Saintes, in the Correze 
department, have discovered what are believed to be the oldest 
human remains, dating back 170,000 years, in the middle of 
the pleistocene age, the earliest period of geological history. 
The skull presents a strong resemblance to that of a monkey, 
having a long jaw and being devoid of canine teeth. The 
other bones are arched, showing that man usually walked on 
all fours. The skeleton has been acquired by the Natural 
History Museum of Paris." 

Monkeys lived in that geological period, and the above de- 
scription is that of a monkey, and not of a man, no doubt. 
It perhaps was some 12,000 or 13,000 years old, as the mon- 
keys belonged to the mammals, and they were created in the 
fore part of the sixth period of creation. 

Below we give another article by a contributor to the Sci- 
entific American of Nov. 18, 1905 : 

" The furthest removed ancestor of man seems to be the 
famous Pithecanthropus erectus. In course of the year 1891 
and 1892, as may be remembered, a physician in the Dutch 
army, Eugene Dubois, discovered near Trinil, on the island 
of Java, some bones of puzzling appearance and with char- 
acteristics intermediate between those of a man and those of 
an anthropoid ape. 

" There, in a deposit undoubtedly of the Tertiary epoch, 
were a complete skull, a femur, and two molars. Simple as 
were these remains, they nevertheless sufficed for assigning to 
its proper place and rank in the animal hierarchy the being 
from which they came. It belongs between the anthropoid ape, 
the gibbon, and man himself. The femur, whose form indicates 
adaptation to an erect posture, reveals man ; the skull, whose 
capacity is too small for man but a little too large for an 
ape, reveals a superior anthropoid. The remains were in a 



SO CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

state of fossilization corresponding to their antiquity and per- 
mitting them to be handled without danger of breaking them. 
They were exhibited throughout Europe and submitted to the 
examination of all competent anatomists." Here follows a 
list of some ten names of those who examined these bones. 
Barring all the possibility of fraud and mistakes of the find 
in these fossil remains of some ancient creature, there remains 
but one bone by which any judgment could be based upon as 
to what it was ; and this bone can be reproduced from a thou- 
sand living creatures of today, not at all related to man, which 
the most competent anatomist would be puzzled to locate in 
the absence of any more evidence. These four bones may 
have belonged to four entirely different creatures, and may 
have lived thousands of years apart. These two articles are 
given to show to what extremely attenuated and far-fetched 
evidence our evolutionist friends are driven to bolster up their 
theory. From an excellent article on the doctrine of Evolu- 
tion published in 1907 in the Scientific American, we quote 
the following extract : 

CHANGES IN PALEONTOLOGY SINCE DARWIN'S 

DAY. 
" But, however numerous are the gradational forms which 
have been brought to light, Darwin's principle of the imper- 
fection of the geological record is in no wise superseded. It 
still remains true that the theory of evolution must stand or 
fall according to our judgment of the adequacy of that prin- 
ciple of Darwin. If the fossils accessible to observation and 
collected in our museums afford an approximately complete 
representation of the life that has existed in past ages, 
THERE IS CERTAINLY NO STANDING GROUND 
FOR ANY THEORY OF EVOLUTION." 

This article was written by an evolutionist, and is a frank 
confession of the truth, to which the writer can add his own 
personal observation, made in the museums, and the field of 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 51 

nature study. The fossils, as indicated above, are what the 
Darwinian theory of the origin of man rests on ; they are the 
whole foundation. The rest is conjecture and supposition. 

We quote again from the above article, which also quotes 
Darwin, in comparing the past and present proofs on the 
evolution of man : 

" In the conclusion of Darwin's chapter on the subject, he 
used a striking illustration : ' I look at the natural geological 
record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written 
in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last 
volume alone, relating only to two or three centuries. Of 
this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been pre- 
served ; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.' In 
the light of our present knowledge of geological history, we 
are able to see that even this striking illustration fails to do 
full justice to the subject. The imperfection of the record con- 
sists not merely in the fact that some of the chapters are miss- 
ing. It appears most strongly when we inquire what chapters 
are missing." 

We see from the above confession of Darwin on what a 
slender thread of evidence his hypothesis rests. And after 
fifty years of the most profound investigation on the subject, 
and the widest research, this same evidence, instead of having 
been strengthened, is considered weaker. 

We will put our evolutionist friend on the witness stand 
once more on this line of evidence. Nothing can be more 
fair than to weigh any theory first by its own weight of evi- 
dence ; and no evidence is more fatal than its own, if found 
weak, faulty or wanting. We call especial attention to the 
following quotation, as being strongly against the evolution 
theory, and as wholly favoring the periodical creation theory. 
The quotation is from the same author, who is in turn quoting 
from other evolutionists, and confirming their statement: 

" We have come to recognize that comparativelv short pe- 
riods of rapid geographical change alternate with long periods 



52 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

of relative stability or slowly progressive change. This is, 
in substance, the doctrine of critical periods as formulated by 
Le Conte. It is precisely in those critical periods that the 
record fails, and the gap is indicated by unconformability." 
A time when these records seem to fail and such breaks 
come in the geological record of the earth's crust, as above 
stated, is just what we would expect when God created a new 
order of beings, and with it, brought in new environments and 
geological conditions, such as we find occurred at the glacial 
period, or would occur at any time past in the terrific convul- 
sions of nature in its mighty upheavals of the earth's crust. 



CHAPTER 5. 
The Origin of Man. — Continued. 

But Two Theories of Man's Origin — Darwin and the Bible — The 
" Ideal MAN "—Man as He Was at Creation— The Law of 
"The Survival of the Fittest" — Physical Perfection in the 
Early Types — Paleontological Specimens of Recent Finds. 

In the preceding chapter, we have introduced evolution from 
its own records. The honest reader may here ask the ques- 
tion : " If the Darwinian theory of the evolution of man from 
the lower animals to his present state rests upon such a frail 
foundation, why does it continue to find so many advocates, 
and that among the scholars of the world ? " In reply we 
will say that all theories, all systems of theology, all cults 
and creeds of whatever kind, from Orient to Occident, have 
had their defenders and supporters among the scholars, and 
have not been wanting in intellectual giants to champion their 
cause. In this case we have materialism against spirituality; 
the natural against the supernatural. In the language of 
the great apostle Paul, " The natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him." 
1 Cor. 2:14. 

BUT TWO THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 

There are but two theories as to the origin of man. One is 
founded on the Bible, the other the Darwinian theory that he 
was evolved from the lower creatures. He who rejects the 
first is driven to accept Darwinism, or nothing. The teacher 
does not like to turn his pupil away with nothing when con- 
fronted with this great question, therefore he is asked to 
believe one of the two theories. 

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54 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

THE BIBLE THEORY. 

" What man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him 
for a loaf, will give him a stone ? " Matt. 7 : 9. 

What can be more lofty, beautiful and refining than the 
thought that God has created us in his own image and like- 
ness ? and what crowns of honor and glory more could he have 
bestowed upon us than to give us dominion over all this beau- 
tiful earth? What is so completely satisfying to the longing 
heart, as the promise of " eternal life through Jesus Christ 
our Lord " ? We are told that " God saw everything that he 
had made, and behold, it was very good." Gen. 1: 31. 

THE IDEAL MAN. 

If man was created in the very beginning of his existence 
" in the image and likeness of his Creator," we would hardly 
look for a missing link, a cross between the monkey and the 
present man, as his ancestor. We would look for a true type 
of the original being, though undeveloped in his faculties, 
yet possessing all 'the attributes, in a degree, of the one in 
whose image and likeness he was created. Not only would 
we look for such a being, but one whose possibilities for de- 
velopment were like his Creator. This is the ideal man we 
find held before us in the Bible. 

FIRST ADAM ONLY A FIGURE OF CHRIST WHO WAS YET TO COME, 
THE PERFECT MAN. ROM. 5 ! 14. 

The inspired writer Paul places this type and its antitype 
before us in a clear and forceful way. " So also it is written, 
The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam 
became a lifegiving spirit. Howbeit that is not first which 
is spiritual, but that which is natural. The first man is of 
the earth, earthy : the second man is of heaven. As is the 
earthy, such are they also that are earthy : and as is the heav- 
enly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have 
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 55 

of the heavenly." 1 Cor. 15: 45-49. The spiritual Christ is 
the ideal man, here clothed with immortality, " being the ef- 
fulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance and 
upholding all things by the word of his power." Heb. 1 : 3. 
Not a figure or a type only, but the ideal of man and God. 
And this is the real man that our God sets before us : " We 
know that, if he shall be manifested, WE SHALL BE LIKE 
HIM: for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3: 2. (For 
the completion of this thought on the ideal of this world, and 
man, see the chapter on " The Seven Kingdoms " and " The 
Age of Man.") 

MAN AS HE WAS AT CREATION. 

If this is the ideal man that is to be, what was the original 
man as he was when first created? In this great question 
we have the point of contact, the disputed ground, the place 
where the Bible theory of creation, and the theory of evolu- 
tion, are as far apart as two opposites can be. The constant 
effort on the part of the evolutionist has been to show that 
the first creatures were very inferior in their physical make- 
up, — a theory absolutely necessary to sustain the doctrine of 
Darwinism. Therefore, as has already been noted, every 
effort has been made to find the missing link between man and 
the anthropoid ape: all have failed. 

The facts in creation are these: That all creatures, when 
first created, were physically perfect, each possessing a limited 
field of development and variation, but like all the laws of na- 
ture, were each limited to their special time and place in 
the economy of creation. This law is so self-evident today 
that it needs scarcely any comment. To illustrate : take any 
plant or animal, place it under different environments from 
that which it has been habitually in for a long period of time, 
or half starve it, or give it a complete change of climate, or 
from a wild state to a cultivated state, or reverse any of these, 
with many other conditions, and a great variety of changes 



56 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

will take place. Some will bring out the best there is in 
them, while others will retrograde by being so treated, or be 
exterminated. What geology has found is this, that the 
first creatures we find lowest down in the earth's crust, of any 
given kind, are just as perfect as any specimens of their kind 
that are ever found in a later geological era. This fact has 
confronted them at every step and has always proved itself 
an insurmountable obstacle. This fact accounts for the sud- 
den and abrupt changes in many of the geological strata. This 
fact is just what we would look for in creation, and after all 
is only a new basis of the law of " the survival of the fit- 
test." Was not this law thoroughly vindicated by God when 
he destroyed the world with a flood, and saved just what he 
saw was fit? And is not this just what we would look for in 
an all-wise Creator in his evolution of a world? Each of the 
successive ages in creation is an advance over the previous 
one, and new forms of life were needed to develop it, while 
some of the old forms of life were useless, or dangerous to its 
progressive stage. The wicked men of the antediluvian world 
were no exception to this rule. 

PHYSICAL PERFECTION IN EARLY TYPES. 

That physical perfection existed in the earliest creatures, 
as great as, or even greater than, at a later period of their 
existence, is we think beyond a doubt true. The author of 
this work has spent much time in investigating this subject 
first-handed, in nature's wealth of inexhaustible mines, and in 
the museums of our land. We have taken out thousands of 
specimens, from the lowest formations to the latest living 
ones. W T hat we have found is the fact that there are no liv- 
ing specimens of today that are in any wise more beautiful 
or perfect than the first ones lower down, of the same order. 
We have taken from the coal measures a perfect specimen of 
fossil fish, of the salmon family, just as perfect as any " Royal 
Chinook " that ever scaled the Columbia River rapids. The 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 57 

mud mussels and clams, as well as the well-known periwinkles 
that inhabit every pond and creek, and are familiar to all, 
were just the same in that far distant epoch of the world's 
history as they are today. A water snail (Ammonite) six 
feet across by twelve inches thick has been taken from the 
cretaceous period. In the same period lived cockroaches 
twelve inches long. (A modern cockroach is usually about 
one inch long.) Dragonflies that attained a spread of wings 
of over twenty-six inches were common. A modern dragonfly 
sometimes reaches a spread of four inches. 

Discoveries of the remains of prehistoric animals have thrown 
much light upon this subject. The huge monsters that lived 
in the reptilian period, to which we have already referred, 
were far larger and more numerous then than they have ever 
been since. Many of them must have reached the size of our 
modern whales. The specimen secured by Prof. Marsh, and 
now in the Field Columbian Museum, is a representative type 
of that age. It rears its mighty skeleton form twenty feet 
in height and seventy in length, and made a track more than 
two yards long. There were many different kinds of these 
immense beasts in that age. The living representative types, 
the crocodiles and alligators, are indeed pigmies in compari- 
son to these huge monsters of the past ages. The sharks of 
the tertiary period attained a length of seventy feet ; a modern 
shark about thirty. Kangaroos, at best, may attain the size 
and weight of a man, in this age. Fossil remains show they 
attained a size then nearly as large as our present hippopota- 
mus. A hog-like mammal has been found in the upper Oligo- 
cene strata, much larger than any modern horse. 

But we will now notice a few of the later animals that have 
lived just before man's arrival upon earth, and see if this 
rule will hold good all the way through. The apes, monkeys, 
etc., show the same thing. Mr. Darwin's oldest specimen was 
some seven feet in height. According to his theory he ought 
to have been an insignificant little fellow, and developed by 



58 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

degrees into a monkey of large proportion, and so on up into 
a real man. We come down to still later periods of time ; in 
geology we call them the Pre-glacial, Glacial and Post-gla- 
cial periods, meaning before, during and after the glacial 
period. This period corresponds with the period before the 
flood and after the flood in the Bible accounts, as we are not 
completely out of the glacial period yet. 



CHAPTER 6. 
The Origin of Man. — Continued. 

The Human Period in Geology and Creation — Giant Skeletons of 
Prehistoric Animals — An Elephant Twenty-three Feet High — 
Will This Law Hold Good for Man? — Human Giants — Bible 
Accounts — Historical Accounts — Recent Finds of Giant Hu- 
man Skeletons from Seven to Fifteen Feet High — Finds of a 
Prehistoric Race of Giants in California — Prehistoric Giants in 
Maryland — Prehistoric Giants in Texas. 

The " Human period " in geology is that period of this 
earth since man has been living on it, and is determined by 
the remains of human beings which are being found. These 
may be composed of skeletons, weapons, cooking utensils, 
their buildings, etc. They are never found in the solid crust 
of the earth, but in the caves and loose earth where they were 
either washed under, or placed, in their burial. They are 
often found in old tombs, sometimes in the pits, and rifts of 
rocks. There is no more fruitful field of wild conjecture than 
the attempt to assign the length of time they have been there, 
by any theory that the Paleontologist has. Yet, when we ac- 
cept the Bible account, we come to close data. It may be 
safely assumed that all animals whose remains are found in 
the same deposits that contain human remains, lived contempo- 
raneous with man, and therefore belong to the human period 
of this earth's existence. We have already found in the 
periods preceding the human period, the law that all creatures 
were largest and best first, and degenerated, or became extinct 
in a later period, only to be superseded by a new and higher 
order. We will now follow this law down through the human 
period. Let the reader remember clearly the period of time 
we are now in, — the last period in Geology, and the last day 
of the Bible creation, — the human period in both. 

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The Great Sloth, a giant bear as large as any of our modern 
elephants, lived during the post-tertiary period. This animal 
attained a size more than one hundred times as large as any 
of the modern sloths. The buffalo roamed over the same 
territory in the United States at that time as he did when 
America was first settled by the white man. But he was a 
vastly different looking creature, in size. Quite a number of 
his skeletons, in part, have been recovered. Some of them 
in life would have measured ten feet from tip to tip of their 
massive horns. The author was informed of a complete skele- 
ton that was found in Texas, in the bed of a ravine, while 
a well was being sunk: the bones were some ten feet below 
the surface, and were all recovered. This monster specimen 
stood ten feet in height, and no doubt was an average speci- 
men for his day. Specimens of this immense prehistoric bison 
have been found as far north as the Yukon River, Alaska. 

In 1882, while making a cut through a bank of clay in 
Kentucky, the workmen came upon a huge skeleton of some 
prehistoric animal. Mr. Farrow, the foreman, had the dirt 
removed as carefully as possible, and made the following 
measurements, which he sent to the Scientific American, and 
were published in that journal Nov. 4, 1882: 

Length of animal, 40 feet. Height, 23 feet 8 inches. 
Length of head, 15 feet 4 inches. Across the knee, 18^ 
inches. Leg from shoulder blade to ankle, 14 feet 7 inches. 
Shoulder blade, 3 feet 5 inches wide. One tooth 3 inches 
wide and Sy 2 inches long. A piece of a tusk measured 15 
inches in diameter where it joined the head. This monster 
was over eleven feet taller than Jumbo, the largest mammal 
of modern times. Molar teeth of the mastodon have been 
found weighing 17 pounds, and tusks 15 feet long, and weigh- 
ing as much as 500 pounds. They were quite plentiful in 
Alaska and Siberia, as their remains show. Among the other 
monster animals that have lived down to man's time are the 
Mammoth, the Great Cave Bear, the Hairy Rhinoceros and 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 61 

Irish Elk. Numerous others of like proportions lived with 
early man. 

WILL THIS LAW HOLD GOOD FOR MAN? 

We reach the climax in man : we eagerly ask ourselves the 
question, will this same law hold good for man as it did for 
the rest of creation ? Having found this to be a universal law 
throughout all creation, it would indeed be strange if it would 
not continue to exist until the work of the Creator was all fin- 
ished. Let us now take up the evidence in regard to man 
himself. " And God created man in his own image, in the 
image of God created he him : male and female created he 
them." Gen. 1 : 27. 

According to the Darwinian theory, we would look for a little, 
wild, hairy fellow not far removed from the anthropoid ape, 
climbing around in the trees not unlike his father the monkey. 
Turning first to the sacred record, let us see what evidence it 
gives as to the early man's physical make-up. In Genesis 6 : 5, 
we read, " And there were giants in the earth in those days." 
This is the second intimation we have in the Bible as to man's 
physical make-up : the other being that God had made him 
good, or perfect, and in his own image. In this last, we learn 
that there were giants in the earth before the flood. Now a 
giant at that time would mean a human being above the aver- 
age size of the race, the same as it does now. 

In Abraham's day there were a number of races of giants 
living on the east side of the river Jordan and around the 
Dead Sea. These were defeated by Chedorlaomer and his al- 
lies about B. C. 1915. Three of these are named in Gen. 14, 
the Rephaims, Zuzims and Emims. We find these under the 
name of Anakims, Avims, Zuzummims and various other tribal 
names, still living in this same territory, 400 years later. When 
the twelve spies brought in their report, these giants were 
the chief terror to the people : " All the people we saw in it 
are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, 



62 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were 
in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their 
sight." Num. 13 : 32-33. Faithful old Joshua testifies to the 
same thing, that the people were strong, and their cities were 
walled and very great; and that the sons of Anak dwelt 
there. Caleb, some 40 years later, at the conquest of Canaan, 
drove these giants out of Hebron; see Joshua 15 : 13, 14. These 
Anakims were held in great fear by the surrounding tribes, 
and their name was a proverb among them ; " Who can stand 
before the children of Anak ? " Deut. 9 : 2. 

On the east side of Jordan lived the Amorites, a tribe 
of mighty giants, whose stature and strength are described by 
the prophet Amos as being like cedars for height, and oaks 
for strength. Amos 2 : 9. They are also mentioned by Joshua 
as giants: Joshua 12: 4; 13: 12. At the time these were over- 
thrown by the invading Israelites, the giant, King Og, ruled 
over them: he and all his people were slain. As proof of his 
great stature his iron bedstead was preserved as a trophy 
(Deut. 3: 11), and was 9 cubits long by 4 wide. This, ac- 
cording to Smith and other authorities, would be 7 feet wide, 
by 15 feet 9 inches long. This is the earliest recorded meas- 
urement, and gives us a glimpse of the actual size of these 
people. 

We still find a remnant of the giants in King David's time, 
B. C. 1063. David's men slew four of them: 2 Sam. 21 : 15- 
22. And David when but a youth slew Goliath, whose height 
was 10 feet 6 inches. However, those who discredit the Bible 
narrative call these accounts traditions, myths, etc. There- 
fore we turn to the prehistoric remains of man for further 
light upon this subject. Many volumes have been written on 
this controverted subject, and all advocates of the theory 
that there ever existed a race of antediluvian giants were 
thought to have been silenced. True, the early Greek litera- 
ture and others abounded in references to giants, but they 



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were full of myth of all kinds, and we will not use them as 
authority. 

Today, because of the advocates of Darwinism, this question 
of the race at one time having been physically larger and 
stronger, has fallen into disrepute among the scholars. We 
have some startling facts on this question to place before our 
readers, which we believe will fully vindicate what we have 
already quoted and said about the Bible account. 

A number of credible historians make mention of giants 
in their writings, among them the great naturalist Pliny. 
Crudence is in complete harmony with the Bible on the sub- 
ject of a prehistoric race of giants. Buffon's Natural His- 
tory states that " there is no doubt of giants having been 
10, 12, and perhaps 15 feet high." 

RECENT FINDS OF GIANT SKELETON OF HUMAN BEINGS. 

Within the present century Plater's giant skeleton was ac- 
cepted as a genuine relic of a race of giants who once in- 
habited the earth, and there is nothing to disprove this theory 
in the light of the evidence we have to offer. While the writer 
was in the city of Danville, 111., some years ago, a human 
skeleton was on exhibition in that city, which was over nine 
feet in length. It was of great age and had been found in 
one of our eastern States. The author of this work vouches 
for its genuineness. 

There is not one historic record, to the author's knowledge, 
outside of the Bible, of a human being of this size. That this 
one should have been more than an average sized man we do 
not believe in the light of evidences at hand. How very im- 
probable it would be, if it should have been an extra large 
man for his age, one perhaps among a thousand, that he should 
be the one found and not another. The improbability of this 
may be seen in the fact that all the graves of the last one 
hundred years, if dug up today, would not yield one such speci- 
men. We conclude that this man was not a giant of his 
race, but one of a race of giants. 



64 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

PREHISTORIC GIANTS IN CALIFORNIA. 

From the Oregon Sunday Journal, of Jan. 7, 1906, we quote 
the following extract: "GIANT SKELETONS ARE UN- 
EARTHED. Burial ground of prehistoric race of big people 
is discovered. Bones three times as large as the average man. 
Remains covered over with a blanket of small stones to the 
depth of some six inches ; rocks of a bright hue." 

Following the headlines we quote again : " San Jose, CaL, 
Jan. 6. ... A constant stream of humanity passed through 
the little narrow lane which leads from Keys Street road to 
the clay pit of the Remillard Brick Co., in which has been 
discovered the mammoth burying ground of a prehistoric 
people. . . . The only systematic exploration that was al- 
lowed was conducted by a party of students under the leader- 
ship of W. H. Merrill and E. Lamb, of Stanford University. 
These men after several hours' work succeeded in uncovering 
a giant skeleton, which from its surroundings and isolation 
from other skeletons was evidently that of a man of some 
prominence among the people of his time. As was the case 
with all the other skeletons unearthed, this one was covered 
with a blanket of small stones to the depth of six inches. In 
this case, however, the stones were of bright hue, white, pink 
and reddish rocks having been picked out for the grave cap 
of the dead chief or whosoever he may have been. Over the 
center of the grave and beneath the covering of small stones 
was a large stone mortar or meal pot. It is of granite and 
ground perfectly smooth both outside and inside. Near by 
was a long-bladed knife of flint. The bones of the skeleton 
were much larger than in that of the ordinary man and in- 
dicated that the person in life was a veritable giant. For in- 
stance, the bones of the fingers, found in a fair state of pres- 
ervation, were almost three times as large as in the hand 
bones of the average mortal. . . . Numerous other stone 
articles for cooking purposes, with the bones of slaughtered 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 65 

animals, were found. These remains clearly point to the very 
earliest inhabitants of the world : and they, a race of monstrous 
proportion. The care for the dead, with the other things 
found, shows a high degree of mental attainment. The fact 
that they were buried under a deep deposit of clay, and prac- 
tically undisturbed, shows that they are antediluvian or pre- 
glacial." 

REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC GIANTS FOUND IN MARYLAND. 

We quote the following from the Christian Herald of Aug. 
2, 1905 : " From Baltimore, Md., comes the news of an in- 
teresting discovery. Students of the Maryland Academy of 
Science have found on the banks of the Choptank River, a 
number of gigantic skeletons. Some of them measure fully 
eight feet. . . . The collection comprises eight skeletons, 
of which some are women and children. They are not all 
complete, but the larger bones have been found, and there is 
at least one complete skeleton of an adult man. The dis- 
covery is considered one of the most important, from the 
standpoint of anthropology, that has been made in years. The 
bones can not be of recent burial, but must have lain there 
for centuries. The formation of the ground above the graves 
gives every evidence of this. During the excavation the re- 
mains of camps of later Indians were revealed. These con- 
sisted of oyster shell heaps, charred and burned earth and 
fragments of cooking utensils. These were fully ten feet 
above the graves which contained the gigantic skeletons. In 
spite of their huge stature and magnificent physique they have 
left no trace of their lives, except their skeletons now dis- 
covered." 

In this discovery we have the one in California duplicated in 
almost every particular, showing that they belonged not only 
to the same family, but to the same period of time. Were 
there no other evidence, we would feel that the Bible record 
of an antediluvian race of giants was fully sustained. But 
there is plenty more as we shall see. 



66 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 



REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC GIANTS FOUND IN TEXAS. 

: (Weekly Recorder.) "San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 15, 1909. 
Parts, of skeletons thought to belong to prehistoric man were 
brought to light a few days ago by workmen digging in one 
of the municipal gravel pits north of San Pedro Park. The 
pit is situated against the side of a hill and several small caves 
have already been laid bare by the removal of gravel. In 
none of them, however, had anything been found. The geo- 
logical nature of the hill is of the upper cretaceous, consist- 
ing of white, soft limestone, a material especially favorable 
to the forming of caves by the action of water. That the re- 
mains found do not belong to modern times is shown in the 
first place by the deposit of gravel closing the cave and be- 
longing to the pleistocene period, and secondly by the size 
of the bones. Built in the proportions as known to us, the 
remains must have formed a man over seven feet tall. Since 
the Indians who formerly inhabited these parts never attained 
this great height, the problem of identity is as interesting as it 
is obscure. Evidently primitive man on the American conti- 
nent lived under similar conditions as in Europe, where his 
remains are found in the caves of Jura." 

That this giant is another one of the antediluvian race, 
belonging to the same race and same period as the ones found 
in California and Maryland, no well informed scholar would 
dispute. His estimated height is rather less than it most likely 
was, and it may have been over nine feet. The location of 
the find leaves no doubt as to where he belongs. No human 
beings lived on earth in an earlier age. We call the reader's 
attention to the fact that from the creation to the flood was 
a period of 1600 years, and afforded ample time for the popu- 
lating of the whole world. (See chapter on "The Age of 

Man.") 



CHAPTER 7. 

The Origin of Man. — Continued. 

Prehistoric Man a Giant Race — The Mound Builders — Giants in 
Mexico — One from Cape Colony, Africa — A Ten Foot Giant 
Found in Northern Russia — The Great Fixed Law — A Higher 
Order Must Succeed the Lower — The " Christ," This New 
Creature — The Self-confessed Failure of the Darwinian Theory 
— Rapid Changes Sweeping Over the Earth — The Cause of the 
Races Dying Out. 

MODERN DISCOVERIES OF A RACE OF PREHISTORIC GIANTS, ETC. 
THE MOUND BUILDERS. 

Throughout the eastern part of the United States we find 
many large mounds evidently built by human agency in a 
prehistoric age. Some of these mounds are more than a hun- 
dred feet high and cover acres of ground. That these are 
the work of man there is, I think, no doubt. Investigation in 
the past have brought some facts to light concerning them. A 
hole was sunk in the top of one to the depth of 100 feet, and 
all that was found in that place was a number of logs piled 
together. On the north side, half way up from the base, an- 
other hole was sunk. At this place a skeleton of a human be- 
ing was found. An aged man living near by who was present 
when the skeleton was found, stated that it was in a fair 
state of preservation and of gigantic size. The jaws were 
large enough to place on the outside of an ordinary man's 
face, and slip his hand between it and the face. This repre- 
sents a man of nine or ten feet in height. In the excavation 
of another mound, a skeleton was found in a sitting posture, 
facing the rising sun. This skeleton measured ten feet in 
height. During another excavation made some years ago, six 
skeletons were found lying side by side with their heads 

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68 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

toward the rising sun. All of them were of gigantic size, 
showing clearly that they did not belong to any historic race 
of man. Others of equal proportion, we have been credibly 
informed, were found some years ago in West Virginia. Here 
then we have the work of this prehistoric race of giants ; a 
race worthy of the work, and a work worthy of the race, 
as these giant mounds and giant skeletons testify. The find- 
ing of these giant skeletons in these mounds shows us that 
they were built by them, or before their advent; the latter 
is very unlikely. 

PREHISTORIC GIANTS IN MEXICO. 

The following clipping appeared in a New York paper of 
Feb. 3, 1909 : " The skeleton of a prehistoric man of giant 
size has been found at a town 10 miles southeast of the City 
of Mexico, according to news received here yesterday. The 
discovery was made by a peon, who unearthed the skeleton, 
which measured about fifteen feet in height. It will probably 
be turned over to the National Museum in Mexico. The find 
has revived the Aztec legend that ages ago a giant race in- 
habited parts of the Mexican plateau." 

Mexico has the largest ruins of their kind in the world. 
The great pyramid of Egypt, Cheops, covers 11 acres, while 
the pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, covers 45 acres, is built 
of carefully hewn stone and was originally covered with 
cement, and supposed to have been used for tombs. But 
who built them, or when, there is no clue. That they antedate 
the Aztec civilization is a well-known fact, as the Aztecs them- 
selves declared to their Spanish conquerors. If the above 
statement is correct, we here have a giant of a giant race, 
and add Mexico to the land of prehistoric giants. 

AN ELEVEN^FOOT GIANT HUMAN SKELETON FOUND IN ALASKA. 

There is now on exhibition in the city of Seattle, Washing- 
ton, corner of Washington and Second Avenues, the skeleton 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 69 

of a prehistoric man 8 ft. 8 in. in height, which was found 
in Northern Minnesota recently. He is supposed, by some 
scientists, to have been a Norseman ; but this is utterly absurd, 
as these people are now modern Scandinavians and Britons, 
and not one of them past or present, has ever been known to 
attain any very unusual size as a people, and there are at least 
100,000,000 of them living at this writing, and not one among 
them that would come up to this prehistoric monster by more 
than three feet. He, beyond all doubt, belongs with his other 
giant brethren to the antediluvian, prehistoric race that was 
destroyed by the flood. We thus have Alaska added to the 
land of giants, and the most convincing proofs of a universal 
race of them inhabiting the earth at a remote period of time, 
and also the fact that they perished in that remote period of 
time and their remains were preserved to testify to us against 
the modern Bible critics of today with facts that can not be 
gainsaid or overthrown. 

A FIND IN AFRICA. 

So far we have confined our evidences of modern discov- 
eries of prehistoric giants mainly to America, but we find 
the same rule holds good elsewhere as the following testi- 
mony will show : 

In the year 1889, Prof. Seeley discovered a remarkable skel- 
eton of a prehistoric giant in Cape Colony, South Africa, 
which was over nine feet in height. It was placed in the 
British Museum, we are informed, where it probably is now. 

ONE FROM NORTHERN RUSSIA. 

Prof. W. P. Amalizki, of the Warsaw University, who has 
been making extensive explorations in the north of Russia 
in search of fossils, found some thirty human skeletons on the 
banks of the Northern Dwina. With the exception of one 
specimen, they were in fragments. This gigantic specimen 
was in a fair state of preservation and measured nearly ten 



70 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

feet in height. This specimen may be found in the Paleonto- 
logical Museum of St. Petersburg. 

What need have we of further proof on this great question ? 
And yet this is not a tithe of what is, and is yet to be discov- 
ered in the near future. Prof. Amalizki's giant from Northern 
Russia was found imbedded in the top layer of sandstone, 
which clearly shows that he belonged to the oldest human 
period, the same as all the giants that have been found thus 
far. We see the wide distribution of the race at this period ; 
and there is no doubt that a race endowed with such strength 
and vitality, and living to see 900 years, explored the utmost 
parts of the world. Their bones and works attest the fact, 
and are in full harmony with the Bible, all our Evolutionists 
to the contrary notwithstanding. 

We certainly can see that great and inexorable law of God 
that ALL CREATURES WERE CREATED PERFECT, 
AND WERE LARGEST AT CREATION. We have found 
this law to hold good in the insect world, reptiles, mammals, 
and also in the human kingdom. As those in the past have 
gone, so will man go when his destiny has been reached. 
Whenever the world had progressed far enough, an all-wise 
Creator produced a new order of beings in keeping with its 
progressive stage, and the old order of things gradually gave 
way to the new and higher order. The first man is no ex- 
ception to this rule, " Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt 
return." Even Darwin and all his followers recognized the 
fact that the human race was doomed to pass away the same 
as all the rest had done or were doing. They also recognized 
the fact that the being who would succeed him must be a 
superior one, as this is the universal law through all Science, 
Nature and Revelation. 

Oh, that man in his blindness and haughtiness of spirit 
would ever learn this law, that " as the creatures below him 
can not know or understand him only in a small measure, but 
as the horse, learn to love, trust and obey him ; even so man 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 71 

can have at best but a faint conception of his God and Creator, 
but he can love, trust and obey him." 

After man, what will be next? Let our Creator answer for 
himself, for he knows. " When the fulness of the time came, 
God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 
that he might redeem them that are under the law, that we 
might receive the adoption of sons." Gal. 4: 4, 5. 

The fulness of time had come ; — shows a set time by our 
Creator for our Lord to come into the world. The same 
was the beginning of Christ's preaching. " The time is ful- 
filled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and 
believe in the gospel." Mark 1 : 15. 

Here then is the answer to the question, as to what will be 
next after man : " Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is 
a new creature : the old things are passed away : behold, they 
are become new." 2 Cor. 5 : 17. This takes away the sting 
of death and unites mortal with immortality, and gives us the 
new creation. Let this great fact fully dawn upon the reader, 
that here in Christ, we have an entirely new creation, just the 
same as we did in all the other creatures, each in its time and 
place. 

Many of the advocates of Darwinism, after chasing their 
phantom theory a lifetime, have given it up in despair. Prof. 
Haeckel, the great German scientist, and once a leader in the 
Darwinian school, now says : " Most modern investigators of 
science have come to the conclusion that the doctrine of evolu- 
tion is an error and can not be supported." This is a mar- 
velous confession for a great scientist to make after spending 
a lifetime in teaching and lecturing and writing in favor of 
the doctrine or theory that man sprang from the monkey 
tribe. He wrote a number of books supporting this theory, 
and they have been sent out into the four quarters of the earth 
and have done their work, and it will stand in a large measure, 
with an ever increasing radius of influence, until time shall 
be no more and man and his works will go the way of all the 



72 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

earth. Had these champions of Darwinism made the same 
effort to establish the truths of the God of the Bible as they 
did the errors of man, their efforts would have been crowned 
with success. " Professing themselves to be wise they became 
fools," and changed the image of God into the image of a 
monkey. Paul, — Rom. 1. Picking up a stray old bone here 
and there, they have written volume after volume to magnify 
their theory, while the great truths in harmony with the Bible 
have intentionally been ignored and passed by. 

The belief that the original man was of gigantic size is a 
universal one and is found among nearly or quite all the peo- 
ple of the earth. All mankind in common worship a Deity, 
believe in a good and evil spirit and a past, present and future 
state of existence. These in their various modified forms 
point to a common ancestry, and the traditions received from 
them. 

It is not the author's intention to state every objection that 
might be raised on this point, then attempt to answer it, in 
regard to the prehistory of man ; yet we wish to note the 
question of time as recorded in the Bible. According to the 
best chronology of the Bible, it was just 4,000 years from 
the creation of man to the birth of Christ. Its own internal 
record shows this. We warn our readers against the wild 
speculative theories so often indulged in by modern critics 
and archeologists who assign dates far beyond these limits 
to some of the ruins of the ancient cities. As already noted, 
the remains of the prehistoric giants are being found in all 
parts of the world. That the whole world was overrun by 
them seems highly probable. That they were an advanced 
and an intelligent race their works attest, though primitive 
in custom and manner of living. We must bear in mind that 
before the glacial period (which no doubt was the great 
flood time) this world was in a vastly different state, and must 
have had a tropical region to Bering Strait and to the north 
of Russia. Many mastodons and other of the great beasts 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 73 

lived there then ; as also did the giants, as seen by the two 
described in this work. Therefore they could easily have 
come from there to this continent. 

When we take into account how rapid the changes sweep 
over the earth at the present day we need not wonder at these 
primitive men with all their physical superiority, accomplish- 
ing wonders. It has been a little over four centuries since 
Columbus first discovered America, and in that almost in- 
credibly short period of time, a new set of races has comn 
pletely supplanted the old ones, and has built up enormous 
empires second to no others on earth, with a population of 
nearly 200,000,000 of people in the Americas. 

Less than half a century has developed a great world power 
out of Japan, which was hardly given a place on the maps at 
that time. With such facts before us will we not give the 
antediluvians more credit than they have ever yet received? 
They had at least 1,600 years from creation to the flood, in 
which they all perished except Noah and his family. 

Again, we hear a great deal said about the " Stone Age," 
and the " Bronze Age," and the " Iron Age." The stone 
age is supposed to represent the earliest man. He was sup- 
posed to work only with stone implements, and of the rudest 
kind, and by these he is supposed to be located as to the age 
in which he lived. Every well-informed scholar knows that 
these three arts, the working in stone, copper and iron, are 
older than any history of ma-n, and have existed side by side 
from time immemorial, and do to this day. The rudest stone 
implements of our own wild man of today are just as rude as 
the most ancient implements found. When we go to the Bible 
for information we learn that Cain, after his banishment, 
built the city of Enoch and named it in honor of his son. 
Gen. 4: 17. We find these antediluvians working in copper 
and iron, making cutting instruments. Tubal-cain, who lived 
about 450 years before the flood, was a skilled artificer in the 
metals of copper and iron, while his brother was a musician. 



74 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

It is true that we are living in a mechanical age, of rapid 
strides ; made possible by the broad principle of the kingdom 
of heaven, which may all be summed up in this sentence, " I 
one am your Master, and all ye are brethren." Matt. 23 : 8. 
But " Sin is a reproach to any people," and always degener- 
ates them. It is the curse of sin that has overthrown all the 
nations of the past ages. The people who have lived the 
truest and nearest to the divine laws in nature and revelation 
are the ones who have lifted the world to a surer basis of 
advancement. It is folly to look to the degenerate savage as 
our ancestor. These are only tangents of the great human 
race and one after another are dying out, as is seen on every 
hand. But few of them have 'been able to stand the shock 
of civilization. The race, family or individual which de- 
velops physically, mentally and spiritually in harmony with 
the true laws of God as found in Nature and Revelation, will 
forever stand in the front ranks of " Creation, Time and 
Eternity." On the other hand, 

" The wicked shall be turned into hell, 
And all the nations that forget God." — Psa. 9: 17. 

That every nook and corner of the habitable world has been 
repopulated and often again depopulated by human beings, is 
self-evident. Thus we have the world populated by the ante- 
diluvians, and destroyed by the flood for their wickedness. 
These no doubt built the large mounds for their homes and 
as a protection against enemies and wild beasts. In America 
we have the recent small mound builders, or more properly, 
mud-brick builders, and cave and cliff dwellers ; these finally 
took refuge in Old Mexico, where their descendants live yet. 
These were followed by the Indian, and he by the white man. 

The fostered vice and crime, born and bred in the lap 
of power, wealth, luxury, effeminacy, ease and idleness, was 
the cause of the downfall of every ancient empire on record. 
It has degenerated the whole human family in physical 
strength, and cut short his days. And God has called it SIN. 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 75 

THE AGE OF MAN. 

Chronological chart, showing the age of man from the 
creation of man to the end of time of the human period. 

Diagram No. 2. 




The diagram shows the cycle of time as shown in the types 
and their antitypes from the creation of man to the consum- 
mation of the age ; or as revealed from Genesis 1 to the close 
of Revelation. (See chapter on the cycle of time.) Read 
from first period round to the seventh. The ages are placed 
in their chronological order with the names of. the patriarchs. 
The marginal numbers run in order from the creation of 
man. 



76 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Note the gradual decline of the age of man from his cre- 
ation to the birth of Jesus. From Adam 930 years to Jesus 
Christ 33^3 years. The average has remained about sta- 
tionary since that time ; but will be much greater during the 
millennium. Isa. 65; 17-25. 



CHAPTER 8. 
The Age of Man. 

The Bible Critics on the Age of Man — The Bible Method of 
Reckoning Time Always Correct — The Climatic Conditions 
Before the Flood — Conditions of Man Before the Flood — The 
Flood— God's Plans Will Not Miscarry— After the Flood- 
Change in Earthly Conditions — Contemporaneous Chart of 
the Ages of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Abraham — Noah 
Lives to See Eighteen Generations — Transmission of Knowl- 
edge. 

That the destructive Bible critics should be up in arms 
against the Bible account of the age of man, is to be expected. 
Many of the semi-critics try to explain away the great age 
of the antediluvians by the difference in their manner of reck- 
oning time. By this method some have arrived at the con- 
clusion that there was no difference between their age and the 
age of man now. There is no real ground for this assump- 
tion. The time in days, months and years, was established 
on the fourth period of creation, and on the same basis as 
that which we use at this present time. Not only is that true 
but we notice that God deliberately cut man's days short, from 
over 900 years to 120. In Genesis 6: 3 we read that " Jehovah 
said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for that he 
also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty 
years." In pursuance of this decree we see each generation's 
age growing less and less until we reach the 120 year limit 
as an average of a full life. Let the reader study the dia- 
gram carefully on page 76 and he will see that there was no 
abrupt break but a gradual scaling down from Adam to 
Christ. This itself is proof of no change of time reckoning 
that would have made any difference in years. The Jews 

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always reckoned time by the seasons, and not as other nations 
did ; while others lost or gained time, they never did. The 
vernal equinox always governed the beginning of their year, 
and the moon the month. Upon these two hung all the divi- 
sions of their time, and all their feasts and solemn assemblies. 
Moses, the inspired man of God who wrote Genesis, also 
wrote out all the cycles of time as given to him by God, as 
well as the set feasts, etc. He made no mistakes in this, as 
the reader will know when he has read this work. 

In the preceding chapters we found a universal law that 
all creatures were largest when we first found them inhabiting 
the earth, or when first created. This same law holds good 
in age also. It is a well-known law, that that which is most 
perfect, most free from hereditary weakness, has the best 
chance for a long life, and this we know was the case with 
the first beings. Another universal law that holds good here 
is this, the larger creatures live the longest and mature the 
slowest. A man of today will die of old age by the time 
these antediluvians began to raise a family, in many cases. 
Their gigantic size required a long period of time to fully 
mature ; it also assured them a long life under the primitive 
conditions in which they lived. 

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS BEFORE THE FLOOD. 

That there was a flood, or glacial period, is universally ad- 
mitted by nearly all scientists. That it was universal is also 
admitted by them. The Bible fully confirms this, " And all 
the high mountains that were under the whole heavens were 
covered." Gen. 7: 19. While it destroyed the inhabitants 
of the earth who had become desperately wicked, it did vastly 
more. The earth must have been swarming with wild beasts 
of all kinds that could find a place. All these were swept 
away and man was given a new world to begin with after 
the flood. But what were the climatic conditions before the 
flood? Is there any evidence whereby we can tell? We think 



THE AGE OF MAN 79 

there is an abundance of evidence to show what it was. What 
is now a cold, barren, arctic region must have once been a 
warm, tropical climate. We find that the monster buffalo, 
mastodon, mammoth and scores of other animals that inhabit 
only warm and semi-tropical regions, once lived in Northern 
Siberia and Alaska, where their bones are found in great num- 
bers in the flood or glacial deposits and drifts. Prehistoric 
bones of man are also found in these same regions and de- 
posits. It is a well-established fact in science that this earth 
was clothed with a warm, salubrious climate before the advent 
of the ice age. This is self-evident from the facts already 
given. When we turn to the Book, we find this fully sus- 
tained. Primitive man did not need to be clothed for pro- 
tection against the weather. See Gen. 2: 25. The Garden 
of Eden was a tropical garden, containing all manner of good 
fruit. There is no recorded rain in this early period of man, 
" But there went up a mist from the earth and ■ watered the 
whole face of the ground." Gen. 2 : 6. No record of rain or 
rainbow until after the flood. The- mist must have hung 
around the earth in a great, luminous ring, keeping it warm 
and moist, and in a perpetual spring time. Everything was 
at its best and in its best to receive man in his primitive 
purity. 

CONDITION OF MAN BEFORE THE FLOOD. 

In this condition man multiplied enormously, and spread 
abroad until the remotest bounds of the earth were reached 
by some of them. Cain was banished for the murder of his 
only brother, and with his wife, who no doubt was his sister, 
as was common, see Gen. 20: 12, he left the home-land, hence- 
forth to be " a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth." Gen. 
4: 14. This outcast fugitive and his offspring no doubt were 
responsible largely for the dark and bloody period that pre- 
ceded the flood. See Gen. 6: 1-8. What mighty gladiatorial 
contests these wicked giants must have fought one with an- 



80 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

other, — " these mighty men that were of old, the men of re- 
nown," — what contests with the great beasts of the earth ! 
Were it possible to know the truth of this age, Greek myth- 
ology and modern fiction would pale before it. Then, as now, 
and always, there were two classes : one is called " The Sons 
of God," the other, the wicked ones, " The Sons of Men." 
Gen. 6: 1-4. For a period of 1,650 years they continued to 
multiply and cover the face of the earth with their offspring. 
During this period of time the condition on the earth did 
not change much and in their ages remained the same. By 
looking at diagram on chart three, it will be seen that Noah, 
the last of the antediluvian patriarchs, lived to be 950 rears 
old. This was 20 years longer than Adam lived, and 350 years 
longer than any man ever lived after him. 

THE FLOOD. 

That we are just emerging from the ice age is an admitted 
fact. That the world was overwhelmed by a mighty flood 
with the ice age, is a well-established fact. Evidences of this 
exist in every part of the earth, in the way of enormous drifts 
of boulders, sands and debris of every sort, scattered, or piled 
up high on mountain sides and fillings in the valleys, etc. 
Many who read the Bible account of the flood conclude that 
the destruction of the wicked was all that was meant by the 
flood, and therefore it was local. We do not believe that 
God altered his plan one bit or changed the time of this great 
world-making epoch one moment of time in order to accom- 
modate himself to render his judgment against these wicked 
people. The time is coming when he proposes to burn the 
works of this world and change it completely again. No 
set of men or race of men can change this plan, or stay it 
one moment, when his set time is full. 

" His works were finished from the foundation of the 
world." Heb. 4: 3. We must reckon with this great flood 
on the same basis as we do with all the other great geological 



THE AGE OF MAN 81 

periods. In this flood we have one of those rapid changes 
so frequently spoken of by geologists, and one which they can 
not account for. We can readily see how all the connecting 
links may be abruptly broken with the preceding period. We 
confidently affirm that it is a part of the great divine plan, in 
the completing of this world. The great body of vapor, still 
suspended like a luminous ring around the world before the 
flood, was in some degree the same as it was during the sec- 
ond period of creation. See Gen. 1 : 6-8. We do not know 
that it had rained up to the great flood. See Gen. 2 : 6. 
Therefore we conclude that something was done that sent a 
great chill over this mass of vapor belt which encircled the 
world before the flood, and condensing it, it was precipitated 
in water over parts of the earth ; while farther north or higher 
up, it was snow and ice. Such a mighty cataclysm would 
completely change the whole surface of the earth. All the 
water levels would be raised in proportion to the precipitation ; 
all the mountain ranges would be broken up and reformed on 
almost their present basis, and raised to an immense height in 
comparison to that which they were before. Trie whole equi- 
librium of the earth's crust would be violently disturbed by 
the added weight and cold. It is well known that the ice cap 
was many thousands of feet in thickness in the north regions, 
and extended as far south as southern Ohio. Mt. Ararat is 
even now covered with a perpetual cap of snow and ice, and 
is some 17,000 feet in height. If the ark rested on its top 
it is preserved in a mantle of snow and ice, and some day may 
be brought forth again as evidence of what God did. 

While this theory of the flood and ice age is a radical de- 
parture from many of the accepted theories of today, we will 
readily see that it harmonizes with the truth of the Bible and 
is in accord with the well-known facts as they exist about us. 
We warn our readers against the wild, speculative theories so 
freely engaged in by our scientists and others, in regard to 
the age of everything belonging to prehistoric times. The 



82 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

author of this work has an unshaken confidence in the cycles 
of time as shown by the Bible itself, which will be found in 
full in the chapter under that heading. Accordingly, we find 
that the flood occurred 4,265 years ago, and the creation of 
man 5,915. This gives ample time for all the phenomena we 
see and know of, in regard to man and the ice age. 

AFTER THE FLOOD. 

We have noticed some of the conditions prevailing before 
the flood which tended to prolong life; we now turn to that 
following the flood. We will find that from Noah, who lived 
950 years, to Abraham, the tenth generation after Noah, a 
rapid decline in the ages of the patriarchs followed, Abra- 
ham reaching the age of 175 years. See chart 3. As we fol- 
low the age of man, we find Moses lives out the full allotted 
time of 120 years, while David, who lived in the latter part 
of the third period (see chart 2), says that "The days of 
our years are threescore years and ten, or by reason of 
strength fourscore years." Psa. 90: 10. We may infer that 
this was considered a full average life at his time. Taking 
Jesus' life at his crucifixion at 2>2>Yz years as a type of the 
average life then, we would have no great change in the last 
two periods of time. Yet we are informed by statistics that 
one-half the human family dies today under thirteen years 
of age. Families and tribes are rapidly becoming extinct, 
and even great nations are dying off. Race suicide has be- 
come one of the great questions of the day. There are many 
notable exceptions to this in all ages, or the human family 
would have become extinct ere this. What is the cause of 
this rapid decline in the strength and age of the human fam- 
ily? That sin is to blame for much of the unnecessary de- 
struction of human life and its misery no one will deny ; yet 
this does not solve the question as a whole and we will have 
to look deeper. We have already discussed the great funda- 
mental law of the universal creation : " That all creatures were 



THE AGE OF MAN 83 

largest and best when first created, afterwards degenerated, 
and many became extinct, giving way for a higher order of 
beings." 

It is so with man ; he is no exception to this rule. His 
time is simply drawing to a close as a mortal being and he 
must soon give way to the immortal being for whom this 
world is rapidly being prepared. (For the fuller discussion 
of this read the chapters on the "Opening of the Seven Seals.") 
It is a law manifest in all things about us, that they are 
born, have a period of existence, and then die. This holds 
good not only in individuals but through the entire creation 
of temporal things as far as we are able to know. Well has 
the great apostle Paul said : " While we look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : for the 
things which are seen are temporal : but the things which are 
not seen are eternal." 2 Cor. 4: 18. 

(No. 3.) Diagram on the Age of Man, showing the lon- 
gevity of the early races and how easy it was to hand knowl- 
edge down from one generation to those following. Notice — 
Noah lived 84 years with Enos, the third generation from 
Adam, and with all the succeeding generations to Abraham, 
the 20th generation : with him 60 years. 



84 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Diagram No. 3. 



Number, names and ages of 
the Patriarchs from 
Adam to Noah, and 
from Noah to Abraham. 



Age at death 

1. Adam, 930 years 

2. Seth , 912 years 

3. Enos, 905 years 

4. Kenan, 910 years 

5. Mahalalel, ....825 years 

6. Jared, 962 years 

7. Enoch 365 years 

8. Methuselah, ..969 years 

9. Lamech, 777 years 

10. Noah, 950 years 

11. Shem, 600 years 

12. Arpachshad, ..438 years 

13. Shelah 433 years 

14. Eber, 464 years 

15. Peleg, 239 years 

16. Reu, 239 years 

17. Serug, 230 years 

18. Nahor, 148 years 

19. Terah, 205 years 

20. Abraham-, 175 years 



Noah and Abraham lived contemporary 
with the Patriarchs as follows: 



Died 126 years before Noah 

Died 14 years before Noah 

Lived with Noah 84 years. 

Lived with Noah 175 years. 

Lived with Noah 164 years. 

Lived with Noah 366 years. 

Translated before Noah 68 years 

Lived with Noah 600 years. 

Lived with Noah 595 years. 

Noah lived with Abraham 60 years. 

Shem lived all during Abraham's life- 
time and died 35 years later. 

Lived with Abraham 139 years. 

Lived with Abraham 178 years. Lived 
3 years longer than Abraham. 

Lived with Abraham 239 years. Lived 
64 years longer than Abraham. 

Lived with Abraham 248 years. Lived 
73 years longer than Abraham. 

Lived with Abraham 78 years. 

Lived with Abraham 101 years. 

Lived with Abraham 49 years. 

Lived with Abraham 135 years. 

Lived with A*braham 175 years. 



It would seem indeed presumptive to think God did not 
purposely thus prearrange the lives and work of the antedi- 
luvians in order for a very special work, to perpetuate his 
teaching among them. From Abraham's time it was carried 
on through the chosen family and their descendants, through 
a written code of laws in which the record of the first was 



THE AGE OF MAN 85 

also kept as we have it now in the Book of Genesis. After 
the first and second decades, of 2,000 years each, we have the 
Messianic period of our Lord, which overshadows all past 
works. Through the first and second, we have their records 
given, and it with the third and last we call, THE BIBLE. 

EIGHTEEN GENERATIONS CONTEMPORARY WITH NOAH. 
TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE. 

One of the most remarkable features of the early race was 
the great age to which they lived, and but few dying except 
those that were killed. This provision by an all-wise Creator 
gave them great protection by allowing them to accumulate 
rapidly. Should the same age for man have prevailed during 
the past thousand years, most of the last fifteen generations 
would be living today. Such a state of afTairs would be ut- 
terly inconceivable. The number would probably exceed fifty 
billions of inhabitants. We have about one and a half billions 
now ; and the struggle for existence is becoming a great prob- 
lem to the nations as it is. God in his infinite wisdom has 
readjusted all this, and shortened the age of man to measure 
up to the earth's capacity to sustain him. But in the time of 
Noah we see a double purpose in his long life and that of 
the antediluvians. Adam, and Seth his son, through whom 
the genealogy came, were the only two of the genealogical 
patriarchs with whom Noah did not live and associate, with 
the exception of Enoch, who was translated sixty-eight years 
before Noah's birth. 

Let the reader make a study of diagram No. 3, and he will 
find that Noah lived to see eight generations before the flood, 
covering the first 600 years of his life, and ten generations 
after the flood, covering the rest of his life of 350 years. He 
had the counsel and teaching of old Enos, the grandson of 
Adam, the first man, for eighty-four years. This venerable 
old patriarch and the others like him, were his teachers, and 
were well able to give him all the details of the life of Adam 



86 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

and Eve, and the story of the fall. This 600 years of life in 
the school of these old patriarchs, prior to the great flood 
that swept the earth of all life, except what the ark contained, 
eminently fitted Noah and his family as teachers for the world 
after the flood. Abraham, who lived the tenth generation after 
the flood, and the twentieth from Adam, lived sixty years with 
Noah, and all his life with Noah's son, Shem, the latter living 
thirty-five years after Abraham's death. Shem lived with 
Isaac one hundred and ten years and with Jacob seventy years, 
and even lived to see most of Jacob's twelve sons. Many a 
time may these two godly and God-chosen men have taken 
counsel together. How old Noah could have taught him first- 
handed knowledge clear back to the third man from creation, 
given him a careful history of the eighteen past generations, 
and told him all about the awful wickednes, and the flood ! 

During the life-time of Noah the tower of Babel was built. 
Gen. 11: 1-9, and 10: 25. Empires were founded, cities were 
built ; and he lived to see the earth repopulated to perhaps its 
former greatness. It must be remembered that there were 
ten generations before the flood and he lived to see at least 
eleven after the flood. The creation began with one pair ; 
after the flood there were four pairs. We have called special 
attention to this much criticised and disputed period to show 
God's great plan to perpetuate the race, and give them an ac- 
curate knowledge of his work with the early race. The clay 
tablets written by these early people are still extant, showing 
that they were a lettered people. That Noah knew how to 
keep and write a book is just as reasonable as for him to build 
an ark rivaling a modern ship in size and capacity. That 
Abraham received records from him and passed them down to 
Moses, adding his own, is very probable, almost certain. 

God chose these men for his own special work, and this 
has been the special work of his chosen men through all the 
ages, as the Bible clearly shows in every book. God through 



THE AGE OF MAN 87 

Jesus the Christ has given us just enough to reveal in outline 
his great plan of " Creation, Time and Eternity." He has 
chosen the first-born of all the ages of man as a type of his 
Son, and through them has revealed his literal lineage back 
to the first Adam. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, was 
Mary's cousin, and the legal heir of Jesus' lineage and in- 
heritance. The world's best and purest strain of human blood 
coursed through Jesus' veins. In this " prepared body " which 
was " Heir of all earthly things," — Heb. 1 : 1-3, — came the 
" Second Adam, the Lord from heaven," — Heir of heaven and 
earth. When his work is finished on this earth, the age of man 
will close, and "time will be no more." Rev. 10: 7. Noah 
is a type of Christ, the ark a type of his church. The earth 
has passed through water once, and will pass through fire 
next. The church has to pass through its baptism of water 
and fire. Matt. 3: 11-12. 



CHAPTER 9. 

The Seven Covenants. 

The First Covenant, Made With Adam, Gen. 1: 27-30; 2: 15-17 — 
The Second Covenant, Made With Noah, Gen. 9 — The Third 
Covenant, Made With Abraham, Gen. 15; 17: 9-21; 22: 1-19 — 
Fourth Covenant, the "Law and the Prophets," Luke 16: 16 — 
The Type Church— Fifth, "The New Testament "—The Sub- 
stance of the Type Church, Heb. 11: 1-3 — The Sixth Covenant, 
the Second- Advent of Christ — Seventh Covenant, "The New 
Heaven and the New Earth." 

God has made seven covenants with the human family, and 
has kept all of them intact on his part as far as they have 
come to their time for fulfillment. Man as a rule has soon 
forgotten his Creator and has gone after the creature. Not- 
withstanding the fact that man has so often failed, God's 
works have stood, and the great plan of world building has 
been and is moving majestically on. Each of these seven 
covenants, or mutual agreements of God with man, have 
been given in their due season, and were only a part of the 
whole plan of creation, time and eternity. 

1st. the covenant with adam. gen. 1: 27-30; 2: 15-17. 

In this first covenant we have the creation of man in the 
image and likeness of God. In pursuance of this he is crowned 
with glory and honor and given a world-wide dominion over 
every living creature on the earth, with instructions to go 
forth to subdue and conquer it. With an added blessing he 
is sent forth, " To be fruitful, and to multiply, and replenish 
the earth." Besides this, God prepared him a special home 
of the choicest of the earth's products, in the beautiful Garden 
of Eden. But with all this he made man a free, self-respons- 
ible being, — held responsible for the stewardship of his 

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Maker's goods. He has limitations put upon him, with the 
penalty of life and death. Had this not been true, he would 
have been a mere mechanical device, or a creature without the 
possibility of ever advancing; and God would still have been 
without a side companion, the glory of himself, and the crown- 
ing effort of his creation. The angels of heaven and Jesus 
Christ, his own spiritual, first-born Son, do his will and obey 
him, and give God glory, honor and praise. For this purpose 
was man created. 

God wisely set before man both good and evil, and the re- 
wards and the punishments with each. This is still a universal 
law in everything, as we well know even in all things tem- 
poral, and how much more in things eternal ! 

This first covenant in the " Garden of Eden " is only a type 
of the final finished product of this world so beautifully de- 
scribed in Rev. 21 and 22. In the loss of this temporal type 
of Eden, the restoration of the true Eden is promised. This is 
the great seal of God to man in the first covenant. 

2nd. the covenant with noah. 

After the flood God gave man a new start, blessed him, 
and made a new covenant with him. " And God spake unto 
Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I 
establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; 
and with every living creature that is with you. . . . Nei- 
ther shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of 
a flood : neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the 
earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which 
I make between me and you and every living creature that is 
with you, for perpetual generations : I do set my bow in the 
cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me 
and the earth." Gen. 9: 8-17. This then is God's second 
covenant with man, — and like the first, we see that it has 
never yet been fully carried out. It has been faithfully 
observed by our Maker, — and will be until the promised seed 



THE SEVEN COVENANTS 91 

of the first covenant, shall have " bruised the serpent's head," 
and " shall come in the clouds of heaven with power and 
great glory," seated upon his white throne, surrounded with 
the rainbow of the second covenant. 

3RD. THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM. gen. 15; 17'. 9-21 ; 

22: 1-19. 

In this third covenant we have the call of Abraham, " The 
Father of the Faithful," a title well earned in his implicit faith 
and obedience to God. The seal of this covenant was circum- 
cision. Gen. 15: 9-14. The covenant itself was a covenant 
of promise to his seed, and was an everlasting covenant, and 
was based upon Abraham's great faith. Gen. 15: 6; James 2: 
23. " And the angel of God called unto Abraham the second 
time out of heaven, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith 
Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not 
withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless 
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars 
of the heavens, and as the sand upon the sea-shore: and thy 
seed shall possess the gate of his enemies : and in thy seed 
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast 
obeyed my voice." Gen. 22: 15-18. 

Again, we see a part of the great ideal plan of God in the 
development of the human family and the consummation of 
his final purpose, in this covenant of promise to Abraham. 
Quoting from the great apostle Paul we have this clear inter- 
pretation of this covenant, " Now to Abraham were the prom- 
ises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, and to seeds, as 
of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." 
Gal. 3:16. 

Again, in verse 29, same chapter : " And if ye are Christ's, 
then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise." 
This is the seed that is to possess the gate of his enemies, 
thus clearly pointing to the kingdom of Christ, and its final 
triumph over all the nations of the earth. 



92 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

To completely prefigure this in a beautiful type: Abraham 
becomes the type of God, as " The Father of the faithful," 
and offers Isaac on the same mountain* where the temple was 
afterwards built and place where Jesus was crucified. Isaac 
as the type of Christ, was as good as dead to Abraham for the 
three days from the time he was told to offer him, until the 
angel stayed the hand that was in the very act of slaying him. 
Gen. 22: 1-14; Heb. 11: 17-19. And the lamb that God pro- 
vided for Abraham to offer in Isaac's stead, becomes the type 
in substitute for a sin offering, until the true Lamb of God was 
offered to take away the sin of the world. Heb. 9: 28; John 
1 ; 29. A substitute was found for Isaac, one for us, but 
none for Christ. God's plans have not been changed in this : 
this was all foreordained before the foundations of this world 
were begun. All, to the greater good of man and the glory of 
God. Rev. 13 : 8. In it, and it alone, is the transition power 
of the mortal into the immortal. 2 Cor. 15: 35-51. For the 
Bible student to ignore or lightly pass by the fulness of the 
meaning of any one of these seven covenants, past, present or 
still in the future, is to destroy to him the key of knowledge 
of the deep things of God which he has endeavored to reveal 
to us in his word, " The BIBLE." Henceforth we look for 
the revelations of God through Abraham and his descendants, 
the Israelites. 



*While it is questioned by some whether this was the same moun- 
tain, the author feels no doubt about its authenticity. " Then Solo- 
mon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on Mount 
Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father." 2 Chron. 
3: 1. David had built an altar here and offered sacrifice after the 
plague was stayed; thus again rededicating, as it were, the same place 
Isaac was offered on, as a Temple site, until Jesus came and was 
offered as the real Lamb of God. Josephus says, "It was the moun- 
tain upon which King David afterwards built the temple." See 
Works oif Josephus, Chap. 13: 3. Smith says that, "It is now al- 
most universally accepted that Mount Moriah, 2 Chron. 3, is the same 
as 'the mountain in the land of Moriah,' Gen. 22, and that the spot 
on which Jehovah appeared unto David, and on which the temple 
was built, was the very spot of the sacrifice of Isaac." See Smith 
Dictionary, Article " Mount Moriah." 



THE SEVEN COVENANTS 93 

4th. the law and the prophets, 
the sinaitic covenant. 

Four hundred and thirty years later, from the time of the 
confirming of the covenant with Abraham, when Moses led 
Israel out of Egypt, God makes the fourth covenant with them, 
at Mount Sinai. While the other three covenants were of a 
universal nature and to all men, and for all time, this one is 
for the government of his chosen people, who were to be to 
him " A peculiar treasure above all people, a kingdom of 
priests, and an holy nation." Ex. 19: 5-6. This covenant 
contained the most perfect code of a written law, composed of 
a moral law, and an elaborate ceremonial law. These are 
found in the books of the law : Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers 
and Deuteronomy. All these were sealed by the blood of 
animals. Ex. 24: 3-8; Heb. 9: 18-22. This is often called 
the first covenant by the New Testament writers, because it 
was the first great set of laws delivered to Israel as a people, 
and it organized them into a nation with a perfect system of 
government and worship. The tabernacle with its elaborate 
system of worship called all Israel together three times a 
year. The law dealt with every phase of the. political, reli- 
gious and moral aspect of the nation's life. 

Yet the whole covenant was only a shadow, or example, of 
the real which was to come. Heb. 8 : 1-5. It " was imposed 
on them until the time of the reformation" (Heb. 9 : 10), which 
reformation is beautifully shown by the Master himself in 
his sermon on the mount. Matt. 5. The world was not ripe 
for any more than this when it was given. Paul likens Israel 
unto a child that is under tutors and governors until the time 
appointed by the Father, and adds, "But when the fulness of the 
time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, 
made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, 
that we might receive the adoption of sons. . . . Where- 
fore thou are no more a servant, but a son : and if a son, then 
an heir of God through Christ." Gal. 4: 1-7. The one great 



94 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

object God had in view, was to develop a people with these 
types and shadows of heavenly things, and to show for all 
ages to come the immutability of his own foreordained coun- 
sel. To the Jew, Paul summed the matter up thus : " Where- 
fore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that 
we might be justified by faith. But after faith is come we 
are no longer under a schoolmaster." Gal 3 : 24-26. There 
is no grander, or more beautiful study, than to see the mar- 
velous unfolding of " Creation, Time and Eternity," as God 
has revealed them in these types and shadows of the Old Tes- 
tament. 

5th. the new testament covenant. 

" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of 
Judah : Not according to the covenant I made with their 
fathers in the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth 
out of the land of Egypt : For they continued not in my cove- 
nant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this 
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after 
those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, 
and on their heart also will I write them ; and I will be to them 
a God, and they shall be to me a people." Jer. 31:31. ''In 
that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But 
that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto 
vanishing away." Heb. 8 : 13. 

This fifth covenant of God with man is the one great central 
figure of the Bible. All the law and prophets pointed to this, 
all the promises of God from the creation of man pointed to 
the coming of Christ for their fulfillment. " The fulness of 
time had come." " The stone that was cut out without hands," 
— Dan. 2: 31-35, — has come to fill the whole earth. Isaiah 
tells his mission, power and glory in a few words. " For unto 
us a child is born, unto us a Son is given ; and the govern- 
ment shall be upon his shoulders : and his name shall be called 



THE SEVEN COVENANTS 95 

Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, 
Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of 
peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and 
upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice 
and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The 
zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this." Isa. 9 : 6-7. Here 
we have him through whom all things were made, all prophe- 
cies given, all types and shadows, all sacrifices made and al] 
institutions of worship given : and all fulfilled in him, and his 
own spiritual kingdom. When all was completed he volun- 
tarily gave his sinless, self-prepared body a living sacrifice: 
and as the last drops of his life's blood trickled to the ground 
to atone for the sins of a wicked world, he exclaimed in tri- 
umph, " IT IS FINISHED." Thus he sealed his last will 
and testament to us forever with his blood. Heb. 9: 11-28. 

How wonderful and marvelous are the works of God, and 
how clearly and beautifully he has revealed them in the 
fullest outline to us in his Word ! Here then is the new crea- 
ture, in a new creation, created in Christ Jesus. Mortality 
has reached its limits in mortal man, and " Jesus Christ has 
come and abolished death and brought life and immortality to 
light through the gospel." 2 Tim. 1 : 10. 

6TH. THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST. A COVENANT OF 

PROMISE. 

Almost every act and teaching of Christ's while here point- 
ed the disciples forward to the time when he should come 
again. The preaching of John looked to the time when the 
chaff would be burned up and the wheat gathered into his 
garner. Matt. 3. Jesus' promise to the twelve to share his 
kingdom with him in glory when he should come again. 
Matt. 19: 27-29, and Luke 22: 28-30. This sixth covenant 
is to last during the millennium reign of Christ with his 
saints. Rev. 20: 4-6. Many of his parables find their fulfill- 
ment in his second advent ; the parable of the ten virgins, of 



96 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

the talents, etc. (Matt. 25: 1-30), are examples of teachings 
on his second coming. (This subject will be found more fully 
treated in the " Opening of the Seven Seals.") 

Another mighty stride in advance of any previous one will 
here be made, and during this covenant's period of time, the 
mortal will be governed by the direct rule of Christ's presence 
on earth with his saints and will continue for a period of 
1,000 years. Rev. 20: 4-6. All the nations will be subdued 
under him, and " The kingdoms of this world have become 
the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ: and he shall reign 
forever and ever." Rev. 11: 15. When this is accomplished, 
then the first command God gave to man under the first cove- 
nant will be full : which was to conquer and subdue the earth 
and have dominion over it. Never could this be said of mortal 
man for he always was conquered by death, and death was 
only conquered by Christ himself. " The last enemy to be 
conquered will be death." See 1 Cor. 15: 20-28. This brings 
us to the perfect number seven in the covenants of the Bible, 
and the last of them, merging time into eternity. 

7th. the new heaven and the new earth. 

" Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 
for you from the foundation of the world." Matt. 25 : 33. 
This is the Alpha and Omega ; the beginning before the 
foundation of the world, the promises all fulfilled. Judgment 
day all past as the last work of the sixth covenant. Deatth 
is vanquished, and sin is no more. " And he that sitteth on the 
throne said, Behold, I make all things new." Rev. 21": 5. 
This is the time when " The mystery of God will be finished, 
according to the good tidings which he declared to his serv- 
ants the prophets." Rev. 10: 7. It is " THE YEAR OF 
JUBILEE." (See chapter on the seventh seal, and types and 
antitypes.) 

We have briefly passed, in order, over the seven covenants, 



THE SEVEN COVENANTS 97 

and noted their harmony one with another, — how beautifully 
an all-wise Creator has unfolded the human family, how care- 
fully all was planned from the beginning, and, though man has 
often failed in his appointed place of work, God has never 
failed in aught. He has destroyed nation after nation be- 
cause their sin was too great to be redeemed, and replaced 
them with others. He has indeed " From the stones raised 
up children unto Abraham." We found in the beginning a 
single pair of human beings, with whom God makes an ever- 
lasting covenant; we find him in seven successive steps of de- 
velopment, renewing his plans on an enlarged scale according 
to their best needs until the work has been accomplished, and 
the seed of Abraham has become an innumerable host that can 
not be numbered, like the sand upon the sea shore and the 
stars of heaven, Rev. 7:9; Gen. 22: 17. Besides these seven 
special covenants which are the very embodiment of perfection, 
God has supplemented them through all the ages by his special 
prophets, who constantly brought special messages from God 
to the people, and warned them. It was also their special 
work to continue to reveal and unfold the future more and 
more, as the time drew on and the world was ripening for 
the great events. 

Of all the ages of this world's history, this is the most 
marvelous, as we are nearing the end of the fifth covenant 
and in the early dawn of the sixth. " Now from the fig tree 
learn a parable: when her branch is now become tender, and 
putteth forth her leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh ; 
even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that 
he is nigh, even at the doors." Matt. 24: 32-33. (For the 
second advent of Christ see chapter on the opening of the 
sixth seal.) 



CHAPTER 10. 
The Seven Kingdoms of the World. 

First, "The Ether Kingdom" — The Beginnings — Second, the 
" Mineral Kingdom — The Record of the Prehistoric Ages — 
Diagram of the " Seven Kingdoms " — Third, " The Vegetable 
Kingdom " — Fourth, " The Animal Kingdom." 

1st. the ether kingdom. 

In the subject that is before us, " The Seven Kingdoms," 
we have an outline of those great fundamental principles that 
underlie the evolution of a world, — the basic principles of 
" Creation, Time and Eternity." Here we have TRUTH, 
that will stand all tests that science, nature or revelation can 
demand of it, the seven great steps from the beginning to the 
end, past, present and future. Our evolutionist friends have 
had a false conception of a right theory ; they have left the 
substance, to pursue a shadow. They have had an evolution 
without an evolver. The clay without the potter. 

In failing to recognize the source of all light and life, they 
have only obtained a half truth ; thus the light they did obtain 
ended only in chaos and utter darkness. How long will it 
be till the creature will learn to know and trust his Creator, 
and that Jesus, the Christ himself, " Was the true light, which 
lighteth every man, coming into the world " ? " He was in 
the world, and the world was made through him, and the world 
knew him not." John 1 : 9-10. 

We turn back the pages of time again to the beginnings, 
and find a great principle common to all things in the " Ether 
kingdom." This kingdom fills all space not occupied by the 
solids, etc. In its realms we find our atmosphere, with all its 

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100 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

gases, vapors, fumes, etc., with a multiplicity of unformed mat- 
ter, or matter that has again been transformed by heat or some 
other agency back to its original form. That this is the pri- 
mary kingdom, the very beginnings of this world's existence, 
is an accepted theory of science, and is attested as true by the 
Bible in the following language : " In the beginning God cre- 
ated the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without 
form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep." 
Gen. 1 : 1-2. 

This ether kingdom is the great ocean, filling all space, 
in whose unfathomable depth the worlds move, live, and have 
their being. Out of it they are unfolded by the artful hand 
of the Spirit of God. In it they exist with their teeming 
millions of living creatures. The many wonderful and mighty 
laws of God in the realms of nature, such as electricity, mag- 
netism, gravity, heat and cold, with a multiplicity of others, 
known and unknown to man, all unite for the purpose of world 
building, each doing its part, and all in unity doing to perfect- 
ion the works of their Creator. 

The writer of Hebrews tells us that " By faith we un- 
derstand that the worlds have been framed by the word of 
God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things 
that appear." Heb. 11:3. Science knows this truth is funda- 
mental. An invisible, intangible something called life grap- 
ples with its surroundings and builds up for itself a form 
out of the things which did not appear. This form nearly 
all comes from the ether kingdom. Perhaps in most cases 
ninety-five per cent or more of all forms of life build up their 
bodies in which they live from the ether kingdom. In turn 
when we consume anything by a fire, we simply drive it 
back to the ether kingdom from whence it came. There is no 
known substance which can not be converted to gas and 
driven back to the ether kingdom, by a sufficiently great heat ; 
thus showing from whence it came. 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 101 

2nd. the mineral kingdom. 

In this second kingdom we have the minerals of all kinds, 
such as rock, metals, lava, clay, soil, etc. All above the ether 
and below the vegetable kingdom belong to this. While this 
kingdom is devoid of life, it contains laws peculiar to itself. 
It is the great condenser of the universe. Its constant tend- 
ency is to accumulate everything within its grasp and solidify 
it, or make it a part of itself, which is the earth's body. Were 
it not for the counter action of the laws governing the other 
kingdom it would soon condense all available material to 
itself. In fact, this is just what it is doing now and has been 
doing ever since it began its work on the second day of cre- 
ation. In Genesis 1 : 6-10, we have the mineral kingdom clear- 
ly set forth as the second day's work in this world building. 
That it was all condensed out of the formless mass of the pre- 
vious period (which was the ether kingdom) is absolutely 
self-evident. That it is a constant growth is very evident, as 
all the fossil remains of the ages past are hid away in its 
bosom and tell the story of the prehistoric ages. 

THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE CREATIVE WORLD. 

This diagram shows the seven kingdoms of the world, past, 
present and future, as shown in the realms of science, nature 
and revelation. 

It shows the successive stages of development through 
which this world has passed, is passing and will pass until it 
reaches its perfection: 



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CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 







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Diagram No. 4. 

1. The Ether Kingdom. Gen. 1: 2.— The 
ether kingdom is composed of unformed mat- 
ter; such as air, vapor, gas, etc., of every 
kind, with all unformed matter still suspended 
in space. This was the only kingdom when 
God began to create this world. 

2. The Mineral Kingdom. Gen. 1: 6.— All 
minerals of every class and kind are included 
in this kingdom. Clay, rocks, sand, lava, fos- 
sils, etc. This was the second kingdom in ex- 
istence, and was created in the second period 
of time. 

3. The Vegetable Kingdom. Gen. 1: 11.— 
This third, or vegetable kingdom, follows in 
order and comprises all vegetation from the 
giants of the forest to the microscopical plants. 
All fruits, cereals etc. The two preceding 
kingdoms are the basis of its existence. 



4. The Animal Kingdom. Gen. 1 : 20. — In 
the animal kingdom we embrace all below the 
human kingdom and above the vegetable king- 
dom, — animate life in every form. 




5. The Human Kingdom. Gen. 1: 26. — This 
includes the human family only; which in 
turn consumes the four preceding kingdoms 
in its struggle for existence, and could not ex- 
ist without them all. 








6. The Kingdom of Heaven. Matt. 3: 2.— 
This new creation was transplanted from 
heaven to earth by the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
is composed of the redeemed in Christ, who 
are ruled and governed by the Spirit of Christ. 
Rom. 8: 9. 



7. The Triumphant Kingdom. Rev. 21.— 
This is the finished product of this world. 
" The Kingdom of our Lord and his Christ." 
Rev. 11: 15. "The New Heaven and the New 
Earth." Rev. 21: 1-7. "And they shall 
REIGN FOREVER and EVER." Rev. 11; IS. 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 103 

That the other planets are composed of the same ma- 
terial as ours is a fact well attested by the many meteorites 
that have fallen to the earth. It has been estimated that 240,- 
000 of these wandering stars fall to our earth every year, 
adding their bulk to the mineral kingdom of our earth. We 
call the reader's attention to the accompanying diagram, in 
which the kingdoms are arranged in their respective order, 
from the nebulous condition in the ether kingdom of the first 
period of creation, Gen. 1 : 1-3, to the finished product of 
God's work in Rev. 21, the seventh period, the period of 
perfection. 

It will be noticed that while the division of the ether 
kingdom and the mineral was made on the second period of 
creation, the surface of the earth was not broken up until the 
third period of time. The great mass of unformed matter 
still suspended in this great luminous ring surrounding our 
planet in its early stages, was the ether kingdom out of which 
it had been evolved, and is still continuing to do so until it is 
all finished. The breaking up of the earth's crust into moun- 
tain ranges, thus forming islands and continents, prepared it 
for something of a higher order, which would have been im- 
possible before this stage. 

3rd. the vegetable kingdom. 

;The vegetable kingdom is the third in order of creation, 
Gen. 1: 11-12. It is not only third in order of creation, but 
from every standpoint it is so. It would be impossible for a 
higher order to exist without it, as all the lower forms of life 
live entirely upon it. Those that do not eat it themselves, 
are entirely dependent upon it through those that do, in one 
way or another. In this kingdom we find all kinds of trees, 
plants, fruits, cereals and vegetation of every form and kind. 
It is wonderful in extent, and admirably adapted to sustain 
the teeming millions of the earth's creatures. 

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104 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

and darkness, with many other laws that are brought to bear 
upon the mineral, ether, and even the refuse of all the king- 
doms above the vegetable kingdom, also including its own 
refuse, is this kingdom fed and nourished, and made wonder- 
fully prolific. It is one of the principal agents in reducing 
the ether kingdom into the mineral kingdom,, as the earth's 
crust testifies in the abundance of its remains found in the coal 
measures, shales, natural gas, crude oil, etc., all of which are 
its products, and have been stored away in ages past through 
the wonderful and perfect laws of an all-wise Creator, ready 
for the use of man. 

Thus we see the great importance this kingdom occupies 
in the building of this world. It at once lifts the world out 
of a dead, dreary, lifeless waste, and makes out of it an Eden, 
teeming with its countless millions of living creatures. With- 
out it the advance of this world would have been forever 
blocked. And without God creating or planting it here, it 
never could have existed. And like the other two kingdoms 
below it, its work will continue throughout creation and time, 
and will not cease in eternity. " And on this side of the river 
and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of 
fruit, yielding its fruit every month : and the leaves of the 
tree were for the healing of the nations." Rev. 22 : 2. This 
same tree of life was in the first Garden of Eden to perpetuate 
life, but God knew his own plans from the beginning, and this 
was only a type of the real in the finished, beautiful world. 

4th. the animal kingdom. 

The next in order is the " Animal Kingdom." In this 
we do not include the human family, as is usually done in 
science, simply dividing into lower and higher animals ; but 
we give the human family a separate kingdom. We include 
all animate life in this kingdom, below man : the inhabitants 
of water, earth and air, in its manifold forms, kinds and char- 
acter; from the mighty prehistoric monsters noted in the be- 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 105 

ginning of this work to the teeming millions of microscopical 
life that inhabit every available space. 

We find in this as in the previous kingdom, that the lowest 
forms of life came into existence first, and' new forms were 
added from time to time as the conditions were ripe for them. 
Not that the lower forms sprang one from another, or the 
higher forms of life from the lower, as our evolutionist friends 
would have us believe ; but the lower forms in most cases 
serve as food for the higher forms of life, and make it possible 
for them to exist. The higher forms in turn serve a like 
mission, only in turn to serve others again until the final end 
is achieved. The animal kingdom could not possibly exist 
were either of the three kingdoms below it lacking, but it con- 
sumes them in its struggle for existence, and in turn adds 
its mite to sustain them. The beginning of this kingdom was 
on the fifth period of creation in the lower forms which in- 
habited the water, and continued on to the close of the sixth. 

As already noted in a previous chapter, much of this animal 
kingdom has already passed away ages ago and is still doing 
so. Many species of many varieties have become extinct, 
while many new ones are coming in, which are better fitted 
for the advanced stage of the world. This is a universal 
law, — the change from the lower to the higher, from the more 
imperfect to that which is better suited to the advanced state 
of the creation of the world. 

As the ether kingdom was the basis of the mineral and 
these two formed the basis of the vegetable, so* these three 
form the basis of the animal kingdom, while all four are con- 
stantly building up the mineral kingdom, and condensing 
themselves into it slowly but surely. This law is working out 
its part in the destiny of this world, and no doubt ere long the 
carbon and other matter held now in an available form for 
plant and animal life, will be so far condensed to the earth's 
crust that all of the present forms of life as known to us must 
of necessity perish. This is a scientific theory, with all the 



106 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

past ages in the geological formations to back it up. Not only 
so, but the Bible holds out the same principle, in the beautiful 
words of the Psalmist and elsewhere. " Thou, Lord, in the 
beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth ; And the heav- 
ens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish ; but thou 
continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 
And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, as a garment, and 
they shall be changed : But thou art the same, And thy years 
shall not fail." Psalm 102 : 25, 26; Heb. 1 : 10-12. 



CHAPTER 11. 

The Seven Kingdoms of the World. — Continued. 

Fifth, " The Human Kingdom " — Many Different Nations — Their 
Origin — The Hamitic Races — The Shemitic Races — The Ja- 
phetic Races — Noah's Prophetic Blessing Upon His Sons — 
Their Fulfillment — The High Order of the Human Kingdom 
— Transition of the Human Kingdom — Sixth, the "Kingdom of 
Heaven " — Its Nature — Seventh, " The Triumphant Kingdom 
of Our Lord and His Christ" — Destiny. 

5th. the human kingdom. 

HAM. 

In this kingdom we have man only, but in many different 
races and conditions of life. The question is often asked, if 
all mankind come from one pair, why are there so many dif- 
ferent races today? This may be easily understood by tak- 
ing a look at all created things about us. The nurseryman 
will plant a multitude of apple seeds, perhaps all of one kind 
of apples, but if he lets them grow to maturity ungrafted, 
there will be but few of them of the same kind, or like the 
original stock, yet all will be apple trees. Some of them 
may even bear fruit superior to the parent stock, but this is 
the exception; the rule is an inferior fruit. So in the human 
family. They soon scattered far and wide after the curse at 
the tower of Babel. Because they had decided to stay to- 
gether, God confounded their language and they scattered 
abroad: Gen. 11: 1-9. The greatest division of the human 
kingdom, occurred soon after the flood. The three sons of 
Noah each became the head of one of the three great divisions 
of the human family. 

In Gen. 9: 25, Noah pronounced this curse upon Ham, his 
younger son, for his disrespect to his father. " Cursed be 

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Canaan [or Ham, see verse 22] ; a servant of servants shall 
he be unto his brethren." " No prophecy of the scripture is 
of private interpretation; . . . men spake from God, being 
moved by the Holy Spirit." 2 Pet. 1: 20, 21. In the light of 
this last scripture, let us look at the curse of Noah upon Ham. 
The races of Ham settled Canaan, Shinar (which is Babylon) 
and Egypt. That these early people were a colored race their 
hieroglyphic pictures of themselves show. That they were 
the most advanced people of their age is well attested by their 
wonderful ruins, and the account left us in the Bible. See 
Gen. 10: 6-14. They were completely driven out in a later 
period, first, by Israel in Palestine, second, out of Egypt by 
their Eastern conquerors later,* and gradually retrograded, 
becoming a wild, savage people as they retreated into the 
forests of Africa to escape the slave hunter. This shameful 
traffic in the children of Ham is so fresh in the minds of the 
readers, that comment on the fulfillment of the above-named 
curse is unnecessary. But thanks be to God through our 
LORD JESUS CHRIST, the curse has been removed, and 
man has learned to know that he is his brother's keeper. 

SHEMITIC RACE. 

Shem was the second son of Noah. " And their dwelling 
was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain 
of the east." Gen. 10: 30. This is the great yellow race, 
which today comprises more than one-half of the human king- 
dom. The Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Greeks and Jews be- 
long to this family. Abraham belonged to this middle family, 
and therefore Jesus did. It is indeed significant that he should. 
Let us look at this race in the light of Noah's blessing. 
" Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem : And let Canaan be 
his servant." Gen. 9: 26. It is a fact that the yellow man 
has been the enslaver of the black man ; in all ages Ham has 



♦Several attempts were made by the combined forces of these Chil- 
dren of Ham to recover their lost territory. — See 2 Chron. 12: 1-9; 
14: 9-13. 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 109 

been the servant of Shem, by whom he has been bought and 
sold in all the marts of the world. 

The Jews were enslaved by the ancient Egyptians, who were 
of Hamitic origin ; but almost destroyed them when they were 
delivered out of their Egyptian bondage. The Jews or Israel- 
ites also destroyed seven nations of the Hamitic stock when 
they conquered the promised land. The old Romans came 
from this great family, and were in the zenith of their power 
and glory at the time of Christ. In fact this was the period of 
triumph of the Shemitic race, since which time they have 
gradually declined. 

JAPHETIC RACE. 

" God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of 
Shem : And let Canaan be his servant." Gen. 9 : 27. This is 
Noah's blessing on his oldest son. He got his blessing last, 
and in every particular have these blessings been fully car- 
ried out. The Japhetic or white races were driven far inland 
into Europe by their aggressive Shemitic and Hamitic breth- 
ren in an early day. Ham had his day first, and was in the 
zenith of his power when Israel was a slave in Egypt. From 
this time forth he went down as shown, and became a bond- 
servant and slave for his two elder brothers. 

Shem had his day next, and gave to the world its Savior, 
its religion. " Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem," — Gen. 
9: 26, — finds the fulness of its blessings in Christ, while his 
rejection of the Christ has been his fall. " God enlarge Ja- 
pheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem," finds its fulfill- 
ment in their accepting Christ. Though the white man got 
the last blessing, he also got the best one, and today is in 
the zenith of his fame and glory. But while he is dwelling 
in the tents of Shem and has Canaan for a servant, let him 
not forget the white man's burden, as a teacher and a good 
steward of the manifold grace of God for his two fallen 
brethren. 



110 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Japheth had seven sons, and the divine writer tells us that 
" by these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their land : 
every one after his tongue, after their families, in their na- 
tion." Gen. 10: 5. By the isles is meant the region beyond 
the Mediterranean Sea, as it is well known today, that this 
has ever been the home of the white man in all history. These 
races divided again and again and scattered all over the earth. 
Some of the different races were a mixture and soon all shades 
of color were produced. 

We have briefly noted this phase of the human kingdom in 
its early stages of repopulating the earth after the flood, be- 
lieving that the superior place of man, in the great purpose of 
God, deserved special notice in this particular. In this fifth 
kingdom, the highest order of material perfection on earth is 
reached ; all things were given in subjection to man. Lord of 
all created material things, he was told to go forth and subdue 
and conquer the earth and have dominion over it. He does so 
in the largest possible measure, and with an ever-widening 
field open before him. Man is a constant surprise to himself 
as he reaches out into new fields of development, and brings 
new laws into subjection to himself. In his pursuit of life 
he consumes the four kingdoms below him, and could not 
live and prosper if deprived of either of them, but would 
quickly perish off the face of the earth. 

Furthermore we notice that he could not live on the gross, 
unrefined food of the lower kingdoms, but must have refined 
food and clothing, the very best of all that is below him, while 
the animal and vegetable kingdoms easily subsist upon his 
refuse. The ether kingdom sustains him in the air he 
breathes, and he could scarcely live a moment without it. The 
mineral kingdom furnishes him with his chemicals, salts, 
metals, rocks, and soils, as well as the very terra firma he lives, 
moves and builds upon. The vegetable kingdom furnishes 
him with all the grain, fruit, nuts and vegetables on which 
he subsists, as well as the timber he uses in his building and 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 111 

for fuel. The animal kingdom supplies him with meat, milk, 
butter, eggs, etc., to eat, and wool, hides, fur, etc., for cloth- 
ing, and animals to assist him in his labors. But like all the 
kingdoms below him he, too, is doomed to die, and according 
to all laws of reason we would look for his successor, as we 
found a new order, or kingdom, succeed each of the previous 
one, and we look for an order of beings proportionately as 
much higher than he is, as he was above the previous kingdom. 

In vain do we appeal to human science or knowledge to 
bridge over this unfathomable chasm. Man, the worshipful, 
God-seeking being that he is the world over, in every tribe, 
has from his creation been taught to know and believe in 
the spirit-life, and a future existence. Is it reasonable that 
he should have been endowed with such a knowledge of life 
and death by his Creator, then turned hopelessly adrift with- 
out a ray of light of a future life? Nk>, never. If such is his 
doom, good were it had he never been born, or brought into 
such a state of comprehension as to know that he must die, 
without God or without hope of a future life. Job, the oldest 
writer known, said, " I know that my Redeemer liveth, and 
that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And 
though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my 
flesh I shall see God." Job 19 : 25, 26. And this is our hope. 

It is not possible for the lower creature to comprehend the 
higher, in anything of his fullness. From the lowest up to 
the highest this must be true. We fully believe that the gap 
between man and the next kingdom above him, is no greater 
proportionately than any between the kingdoms that have 
preceded him. Yet the ratio of intelligence, wisdom and power 
increases rapidly in each successive upward kingdom until 
the finished product is reached in the seventh and last king- 
dom. 

6th. the kingdom of heaven. 

" In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the 
wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye; for the kingdom 



112 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

of heaven is at hand." Matt. 3:1,2. " From that time Jesus 
began to preach, and to say, Repent : for the kingdom of heav- 
en is at hand." Matt. 4: 17. "Then Peter said unto them, 
Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of 
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive 
the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is unto you, 
and unto your children, and to all that are afar off, even as 
many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2: 38, 39. 

Here we have this, the sixth kingdom in order of suc- 
cession, presented to us in its beginnings by the herald, John 
the Baptist, then by the King himself, then by the first preach- 
er of the new era, after the baptism of the long-promised Holy 
Spirit. It was Jesus who said, " The law and the prophets 
were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is 
preached, and every man presseth into it." Luke 16: 16. The 
consummation of all the past ages is in this new spiritual 
kingdom. All the past preparations have been for it, and like 
all the kingdoms below it, it did not make its advent into 
this world until all things were ready, and the time was full. 
It can exist only in a human being, and requires the highest 
development of Faith, Hope and Love to sustain it. Its mis- 
sion in this world is to sanctify, to cleanse, to make holy, and 
lift the being up to a new realm of eternal life. For this 
purpose it must consume and destroy all the dross and refine 
the being it occupies, bringing his faith to a fullness of trust 
and obedience to the Author of his existence. The great 
apostle Paul has truly said, " If any man be in Christ, he is 
a new creature : old things are passed away : behold, all things 
are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17. 

When Jesus the Christ came to this world, he brought a 
new creature, a NEW CREATION, just as distinctly so 
as when the other creatures were formed in their respective 
times and ages. Like the former kingdoms, this kingdom has 
laws peculiar to itself, and can not exist except on the basis 
of its own laws ; he who will not regard them will suffer the 



THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD 113 

same consequences, pro rata, as he who disregards the other 
laws about him in the natural world. No creature in the 
realms of creation has the power to perpetuate its own life, 
but simply lives out its time to perpetuate its species, and 
furnish a basis of support for the higher kingdom above it. 
To do this it must die; there is no exemption from this law. 

In the vindication of this fundamental truth we can do no 
better than to let the Book tell it : " It is sown a natural 
body: it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, 
and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first 
man Adam was made a living soul : the last Adam was made 
a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is 
spiritual, but that which is natural : and afterwards that which 
is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second 
man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they 
also that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, such are they also 
that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the 
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now 
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit 
the KINGDOM of GOD: neither doth corruption inherit 
incorruption." 1 Cor. 15: 44-50. 

Here we have a clear distinction between the natural and 
the spiritual being, and of the transition of the one into the 
other. Like the transition of the beautiful butterfly from the 
ugly caterpillar : the one hides itself in the dust of the earth, 
while the other flies away into the ether kingdom to meet its 
Maker, a thing of beauty and perfection. Yet this kingdom, 
with its mighty transforming power, is only the preparatory 
state of that which is to come ; and when its work is done will 
be merged into that which is to supersede it, and like those 
that are below it, form the basis or stepping-stone for the 
next and highest order above it. 

7th. the triumphant kingdom. 
We now have the seventh and last kingdom, the kingdom 



114 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

of perfection. While the human kingdom extended from the 
creation of the first Adam, to .the establishing of the kingdom 
of heaven by our Lord, this kingdom will last until the end 
of time. " Then cometh the end, when he shall have deliv- 
ered up the kingdom to God, even the Father : when he shall 
have put down all rule and all authority and all power. 
. . . And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then 
shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all 
things under him, that God may be all and in all." 1 Cor. 
15 : 24, 28. This makes the question of Christ's work in point 
of duration clear. With the final judgment and cleansing of 
this world by fire, the work of this kingdom will be done, 
and from henceforth it will be " THE KINGDOM OF OUR 
LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST: and he shall reign forever 
and ever." Rev. 11: 15. 

This is the time of the new heaven and the new earth, 
which will be more definitely and clearly treated in the opening 
of the seven seals. It has been our aim under this subject to 
place before our readers a clear and concise statement of the 
great fundamental principles so clearly apparent to all, upon 
which God has based the development of a great world, 
from a shapeless, formless mass, to that of a beautiful, 
perfected planet that outshines the noonday sun in its glory. 
It is indeed a work worthy of our God and his Christ, with 
all his glorious saints. It makes God the true God of all 
things visible and invisible and brings us into a harmonious 
relation with him in every point of conception. Daily, mo- 
ment by moment, we lean upon his strong arm of protection, 
and are surrounded on every side by his wonderful laws that 
work out the destiny of a world for the home of man. 

This is the preconceived plan of God. This is foreordina- 
tion ; the prefixed destiny of a world, not of a soul ; for it 
has been made in the image and likeness of its Maker, and 
therefore fixes its own destiny. But the plan is neither altered 
nor delayed by human agency, for the man that fails must 



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bear his own loss. Our Lord is building a house, a mansion, 
a city, yea, a mighty world for his own glory and that of his 
children. The work is well under way, much material has 
been already placed into the hands of his skilled workmen, 
and they have done their work well ; none have failed, none 
will fail until all is finished. How can man, who was born 
but yesterday, and will pass away tomorrow, contend with 
him who laid the foundations of the earth? Well may Sol- 
omon say, " Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn 
out her seven pillars : She hath killed her beasts : she hath 
mingled her wine : she hath also furnished her table. She 
hath sent forth her maidens : she crieth upon the high places 
of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither ; as for him 
that wanteth understanding, she saith unto him, Come, eat 
of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled. 
Forsake the foolish, and live: and go in the way of under- 
standing." Prov. 8: 1-6, 



CHAPTER 12. 
Typology. — A Discourse on Types. 

Types Defined — Why Employed — The Garden of Eden — Cain and 
Abel — Noah and the Ark — The Dove and the Raven — The 
Three Sons of Noah: Ham, Shem and Japheth. 

" For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, 
not the very image of the things, can never with the same 
sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make 
perfect them, that draw nigh." Heb. 10: 1. 

TYPE. An emblem ; a symbol ; that which has a symbol- 
ical significance ; that which is emblematic. Christ is the 
antitype of the paschal lamb, which was slain yearly upon 
the 14th day of the month Abib. Thus the lamb became a 
type of Christ, while Christ was the antitype of the lamb ; 
the lamb thus being a model, an example, a pattern of Christ. 

Inasmuch as the works of God were finished from the foun- 
dation of the world, in order to show this for all time to come, 
it was revealed through the medium of Types, Shadows, Ex- 
amples, Figures, Parables, Prophecies and Visions. These 
have been carefully embodied in the religious services of the 
people who were chosen for that special purpose, to carry 
out the great living plan of God. Every feast, sacrifice and 
ordinance pointed to something yet to come, and in itself was 
only a type or shadow, whose substance was thus dimly fore- 
shadowed. " Who served that which is a copy and shadow of 
the heavenly things." Heb. 8: 5. 

From the time that God placed man upon this earth, he 
has by a series of graded steps unfolded his great plans for 
the future of this world and the race which he has created in 
his own image and likeness. Thus we see that God begins 

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at that stage of this world's history with "a type of himself 
in the creation of man ; for Adam was only a figure of Christ 
who was yet to come. See Rom. 5 : 14. But Jesus Christ 
was " The very image, of the substance of God." Heb. 1 : 3. 
" The first man was of the earth earthy," only a type, an 
image, or figure of him which was to come, while " The sec- 
ond man was the Lord from heaven." 1 Cor. 15: 47. That 
part of the human race that will answer the purpose of their 
creation, the great design of their Creator, will also pass from 
the type to the antitype, from the image to the real being. 
" And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also 
bear the image of the heavenly." 1 Cor. 15: 49. 

In man's fall we have his true earthly nature revealed. 
The great apostle Paul is clear on this subject when he says, 
" For the creation was subject to vanity, not of its own will, 
but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the crea- 
tion itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of cor- 
ruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God." 
Rom. 8: 20, 21. 

TYPES AND SHADOWS. 

That the meaning of a type should not always be clear to 
us is self-evident, because all of them point step by step, up, 
up, through the ages unto the final perfection of the great 
plan of God. It is the purpose in these pages so to unfold this 
plan that they may be easily seen and their true setting the 
more easily determined. The Bible is its own commentary ; 
it is self-interpreting, it is a unit. Read Genesis, you need to 
read the rest of the Bible to fully bring out its meaning. Read 
Revelation, you need all of the rest to comprehend it : and this 
is true wherever you touch the divine record; you come in 
contact with it as a whole. 

THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 

In the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2, we have a type of the 
final perfected home of the human family, so beautifully and 



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graphically described in Rev. 21 and 22. Here we have man the 
image or type of God his Maker, entrusted with the care of 
a beautiful home, made responsible for its protection and his 
loyal obedience to his Maker ; and although it was apparent 
from the beginning that as a temporal being he would fail, 
yet the type was perfect and will never fail. The serpent in 
the garden who deceived Eve is indeed a most fitting type 
of the deceiver of man. His poisonous fangs, low, crafty 
cunning in capturing his prey, all make him indeed a fit em- 
blem of his satanic majesty as described in Rev. 20 : 1-3. In the 
restored Eden of Rev. 21 and 22, we have the tree of life again 
to be freely used, its leaves for the healing of the Nations : 
also, " There shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, 
or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they 
that are written in the Lamb's book of life." Rev. 21 : 27. 
As the serpent is a type of Satan, so is the lamb always a 
type of Christ, and the dove of the Holy Spirit. See John 1 : 
29, 32. 

CAIN AND ABEL. 

In these, the first born sons, we have a most beautiful type 
of the first and second Adam. Cain, the type of the fallen 
man, offers on his altar the fruit of the ground and is re- 
jected: while Abel offers the life of the firstling of his flock 
and is accepted. The one is emblematical of " The earth 
earthy," the other, of "The Lord from heaven," 1 Cor. 15: 
47. Cain, the man of sin, slays his brother the righteous : 
so the Jew with his carnal types and shadows, slays Jesus, 
the Lamb of God, who bears away the sin of the world. The 
younger brother dies for the elder : the righteous for the 
unrighteous, prefiguring the atonement. 

NOAH AND THE ARK. 

In the saving of the human family by Noah's Ark, we have 
a type of the Church of Jesus Christ. As Noah prepared his 
ark for the saving of his family, so Christ has prepared his 



120 CREATION. TIME AND ETERNITY 

church for the saving of all that will come unto him. As 
Noah was instructed to take into his ark of all kinds of beasts 
and birds, so Christ says, " Preach my gospel to every crea- 
ture," Mark 16: 15. Peter had to relearn this lesson from 
the Lord through a vision before he would reluctantly accept 
it and go and teach Cornelius the Gentile. While he was 
praying, heaven was opened and a great sheet was let down 
to him, " wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the 
earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the 
air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat. 
But Peter said, Not so, Lord : for I have never eaten anything 
that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him 
again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not 
thou common. This was done thrice: and the vessel was 
received up again into heaven." Acts 10: 9-48. Later in 
his ministry, when Peter wrote his epistle, this beautiful type 
was clear unto him when he said, " The like figure whereunto 
even baptism doth also now save us." 1 Pet. 3: 21. 

As the world has once gone through its baptism of water, 
destroying the wicked and saving the righteous, so it will 
next go through a baptism of fire, destroying the wicked and 
saving the righteous. (This will be found fully treated in the 
chapter on the opening of the sixth seal.) 

Noah here is the type of Christ : the seven with him repre- 
sent the perfect number, all the redeemed of all ages and 
nations. See Rev. 6: 9. 

" He sent forth a raven." Gen. 8 : 7. The black raven, a 
scavenger, a bird of prey, would not return again to the ark. 
While it is not so definitely stated in the Scriptures, this is a 
fit type of Satan, who went ahead of the Holy Spirit into 
the world and will never return to God, but will be destroyed 
by the Lord Jesus Christ. See 1 John 3:8. " For this cause 
was the Son of God made manifest, that he might destroy the 
works of the devil." 

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were abated from off the ground : but the dove found no rest 
for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark." 
Gen. 8: 8. And Noah put forth his hand and took her in. 
The dove, unlike the raven, returns to the ark. Here we 
have the emblem or type of the Holy Spirit: in the first dis- 
pensation of time from Adam to Noah she finds no resting 
place on earth but returns to the ark for safety. " And he 
stayed yet other seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove 
out of the ark : and the dove came in to him at eventide : and, 
lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off : so Noah knew that 
the waters were abated from off the earth." Gen. 8: 10, 11. 
The Holy Spirit goes forth again after the flood and stays 
all during that dispensation, from the flood to the first com- 
ing of Christ : in the evening of the second dispensation of 
time he brings in the olive branch, the emblem of peace, in 
the person of the Babe of Bethlehem. This beautiful type 
finds its fulfillment in the angels' song, " Glory to God in the 
highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Luke 
2: 14. Jesus indeed returns to God, but sends the Holy 
Spirit in his stead. " And he stayed yet other seven days, and 
sent forth the dove : and she returned not again unto him 
any more." Gen. 8: 12. This beautiful type has its fulfill- 
ment in the last dispensation ; from the day of Pentecost to 
the second coming of Christ his work will continue and he 
will never leave this world again until his work is entirely 
finished. 

The seven days each stand for the full period of time of 
one dispensation. The figure 40 will be noticed under the 
type of 40, in the chapter which treats on that subject. 

THE THREE SONS OF NOAH I HAM, SHEM AND JAPHETH. 

These three sons, it would seem, have a peculiar place in 
the types of the ages. As we look at them through the curse 
and blessings of Noah we see their future destiny, clearly 
outlined. Ham (or Canaan, as his son who received the in- 
heritance was called, and upon whom the curse was Dro- 



122 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

nounced) was to be a perpetual slave for the other two sons: 
and so it has ever been the lot of the descendants of Ham. 
Well may this dark picture stand as a type of the first dis- 
pensation of the human family before the flood. Yet it will 
also end in the fullness of time. Gen. 9 : 25. 

Shem comes in for a blessing, Gen. 9: 26, and fills the sec- 
ond dispensation. Abraham belongs to this family, and it 
ruled the second dispensation, and gave to the world its Sav- 
ior. Japheth comes in last, but has the greatest blessing 
pronounced upon him. Gen. 9 : 27. " God enlarge Japheth, 
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem : and let Canaan be 
his servant." Gen. 9: 27. We are now living in the fullest 
realization of this blessing pronounced upon Japheth. The 
type and antitype have met in this the last dispensation. The 
son of Japheth, the white man, has the ascendancy; he is 
literally dwelling in the tents of Shem, and Canaan has been 
his servant for ages. The very colors of the races are a type 
of the ages of their ascendancy: Ham, the black slave, the 
dark antediluvian world. Shem, the yellow race in the mid- 
dle, or age of types and shadows of the Jewish ceremonial 
law. Japheth, the white man, in the last human age : the 
dispensation of the Holy Spirit. 



CHAPTER 13. 

Typology. — Continued. 

THE TYPE OF THREE— Diagram of the Type of Three- 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — Abraham a Type of God — Isaac a 
Type of Jesus — Esau and Jacob — Their Types and Antitypes — 
The Repenting Prodigal — Restoration — The Work of the Holy 
Spirit — Israel the Prince of God — Jacob the Founder of the 
Type Church — The Twelve Sons — Types Of. 

THE TYPE OF THREE. 

It is eminently fitting at this time to give this wonderful 
type a special notice, as it will materially help us to under- 
stand the unfolding of the future great types. The most 
casual observer of the Holy Scriptures must have noticed the 
frequency with which he has met with the number three in 
its pages ; but because of the immensity of the scale on which 
the plan has been executed, it has been beyond the compre- 
hension to get the proper connections or to grasp it in its en- 
tirety. Not only has this been true, but the varied meaning, 
from the most earthly or lowest type to the highest or most 
spiritual, is a mighty concept, and demands the most lofty 
spiritual conception and development to fully grasp. Yet 
many of these become exceedingly simple, and so singularly 
beautiful when brought out in bold relief as to dispel all 
doubts in the minds of the most skeptical as to their true re- 
lation to the antitype which they represent. 

It may be taken as a fundamental truth, that the ultimatum 
of all these triplet types find their full and complete antitype 
in the " Father, Son and Holy Spirit ; " and the three great 
periods of time, from the creation of man to the triumphant 
kingdom of Christ. Jesus himself refers to Jonah as a type 
or sign of himself being in the tomb three days and coming 

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out alive and unharmed. Matt. 12 : 40. In the previous chap- 
ter will be found a triplet of types in Noah's three sons. These 
represent the three great heads of the human family after the 
flood, and their posterity the three great periods of time of 
the age of man. Ham, the black slave, represents the first 
2,000 years from Adam to the flood, — black with crime and 
doomed to speedy destruction, as all sin is. Shem represents 
the more enlightened middle period, from the flood to the 
birth of Christ ; he is the middle man in color and in actual 
possession of the predominating influence of the world to 
Christ's time, and ever stands as its great prototype. Japheth, 
the white man, stands for the last dispensation, that of Jesus 
Christ and the Holy Spirit, or from the birth of Christ to the 
close of this age. 

DIAGRAM OF THE TYPE OF " THREE.'' 

Below we give a diagram of the three dispensations, which 
will enable the reader to see in part the great plan of the 
age of man on this world and how the division of time was 
made, with some of the types and antitypes leading up to 
the final completion of the works of God with man. It will 
be noticed that each dispensation is only a passing type or 
shadow of that which is to supersede it: 



TYPOLOGY.— A DISCOURSE ON TYPES 



125 



Diagram No. 5. 



First Dispensa- 
tion. 



iSecond Dispensa- 
tion. 



Third Dispensa- 
tion. 



Sabbath. 



FATHER, 

From Adam 

Abraham. 
Government from 

God through the 

Fathers. 
2,000 Years. 



SON. 

:o Abraham to Christ. 
Government o f 

God through the 

Law and Pr. 

Types and 

shadows. 
2,000 Years. 



HOLY SPIRIT. 

Birth to 2nd Ad- 
vent of Christ. 

Government 
through Jesus 
Christ and Holy 
Spirit. 

2,000 Years. 



TRIUMPH. 

2nd Ad. to final 

Judgment. 
1,000 Years. 



1,000 y. 2,000 y. |3,000 y. 4,000 y. 
Adam, human Fa-Abraham F. of 
ther. Faithful. 



5,000 y. 6,000 y. 
Christ, Father of 
the Holy Spirit. 



7,000 y. 



Enoch translated 
to heaven. Gen. 
5: 24. 



Elijah translated 
to heaven. 2 
Kings 2: 11. 



Jesus ascends 
heaven. Ac. 1 



to All the saints. 
9. Rev. 20: 6. 



(Patriarchal Ad- 
ministration) 

Adam the lawgiv- 
er. 

The Antediluvian 
world governed 
through him. 



Moses the lawgiv- 
er. 



Christ the lawgiv- 
er. 



Holy 

Son. 
All the 

deemed. 



Spirit, 
Re- 



Noah in judgmentlMoses the second, 
of the 1st Dis. 



Christ the 3rd. 



Final Ju. by all 
three, Father, 
Son, and Holy 
Spirit. 



1st. Passed 2nd through water 

through waterl and fire, 
baptism. 



3rd. Through 
water, Holy 

Spirit and fire. 



Purified. 



Saved by faith and 
obedience 
through the Ark. 



Saved by faith 
and obedience 
through the law 
of Moses. 



But redeemed 
through the 
blood of Christ, 
faith and works. 



The day 
rest. 



of 



This division of time is not arbitrary, as will be readily 
seen by a study of the chronology of the Bible from its own 
records. The first two periods have already gone down into 
the world's history, while over 1,900 years of the third have 
passed since the birth of our Lord. Under the type of Forty 
and Seven and the Cycles of Time, this question will be more 
fully discussed and brought out. For clearness it is often 
necessary to segregate a type, or set of types, from their 
original setting, and follow them through to their conclusion, 
but by so doing we should not wrest them from their true 
meaning or place in the great outline plan of God. 



126 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB OR ISRAEL. 

These three great patriarchs, whose names have been a 
household word in all the past ages since their time, stand out 
in bold relief as among the most striking figures of all the 
great prototypes of the second dispensation. 

Abraham, like Adam, stands at the head of his dispensation, 
and was ever known as " The Friend of God," — James 2 : 
23, — and as " A Father of many nations." Gen. 17 : 5. He 
ever stands as the great type of God. Beginning with Abra- 
ham, God through this, the second dispensation, has wrought 
* out on a stupendous living scale the third dispensation. There 
was nothing perfect in this, the second dispensation, only 
pointing to the real in the third under Christ. " For the law 
made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did : 
by which we draw nigh unto God." Heb. 7: 19. 

Again, the writer of the book of Hebrews, after enumer- 
ating many of the ancient Fathers of the first and second dis- 
pensations, in which the name of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 
are most prominent (see Heb. 11), sums it all up by saying, 
" And these all, having had witness borne to them through 
their faith, received not the promise, God having provided 
some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they 
should not be made perfect." Heb. 11 : 39, 40. 

In Christ we have received the true substance of which 
they only had a promise. " Now to Abraham were the prom- 
ises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, 
as of many : but as of one. And to thy seed, meaning Christ." 
Gal. 3 : 16. Gen. 22 r 18. To Adam, the Father of the human 
race, was the promise of Christ made, — " The seed of the 
woman shall bruise the serpent's head." Gen. 3: 15. To 
Abraham, the Father of the faithful, is the promise renewed: 
" In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." 
Gen. 12: 3, All the promises are fulfilled in Christ; all the 
shadows vanish, and types are swallowed up in their antitypes. 



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" For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put 
on Christ. There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can 
be neither bond nor free, there can be no male nor female : 
for ye are all one man in Christ Jesus. And if ye are Christ's, 
then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise." 
Gal. 3 : 27-29. 

The three dispensations meet here in one man. Adam, the 
man of sin : Abraham, the man of pure faith in God : all 
meet in Christ, die in Christ and are resurrected in Christ, 
" who is heir of all things," and " the very image of God." 
He overcame all sin, conquered deaths and robbed the grave 
of its victim. The apparently impossible will soon be ac- 
complished in him, of bringing all the world into one again. 
Ham, Shem and Japheth will dwell together in the same ark 
with old Father Noah again. And Adam and Eve will once 
more sit together with their children, in the beautiful Garden 
of Eden and partake of the fruits of the tree of life. See Rev. 
21, 22. 

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. 

As Abraham is a type of God the Father, so is Isaac a type 
of Christ the Son. Isaac was the first-born son of his father, 
so was Jesus. Isaac was a child of promise (see Gen. 17: 
15, 16), so was Jesus. Both were miraculous children. While 
Ishmael was born to Abraham from the bondmaid, and was 
older than Isaac, he was not the heir or legal son, and was 
a type of the Jews in bondage of sin when Jesus came to them. 
" For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the 
handmaid, and one by the free woman. Howbeit the son by 
the handmaid is born after the flesh ; but the son of the free 
woman is born through promise. Which things contain an 
allegory : for these women are two covenants : one from 
Mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage (the Jews under 
the law and sin), which is Hagar. Now this Hagar is Mount 
Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is : 



128 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

for she is in bondage with her children. But the Jerusalem 
that is above is free, which is our mother." Gal. 4: 21-31. 
The beautiful type of Isaac as the only son and true heir 
of promise, is carried out to its fullest perfection in Gen. 
22, Heb. 11: 17-19. Abraham is ordered to offer him on 
Mount Moriah, the mount of God, where the temple was after- 
wards built by Solomon, and the same mountain on which the 
paschal lamb was slain for a thousand years, or from the 
dedication of Solomon's temple to the crucifixion of Christ, 
who himself was the antitype of Isaac, and the lamb which 
was slain daily until his crucifixion. From the time he was 
told to sacrifice him until he actually laid him on the altar was 
the third day: from the time Jesus was offered, until he rose 
from the dead was the same. On the basis of his great faith, 
proved by his works, he became the great prototype of God the 
Father, and Isaac of Jesus, the Son of God. " Though he 
was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he 
suffered : and having been made perfect, he became unto all 
them that obey him the author of eternal salvation." Heb. 
5 : 8, 9. 

ESAU AND JACOB. 

Esau and Jacob are the great prototypes of the Jews and 
Gentiles as found at the time of Christ's work on earth among 
them. Esau, the elder brother, inherits the birthright, but 
sells it for naught to Jacob, his younger brother, and also 
loses the blessing through him. The Jew did likewise in his 
rejection of Christ, and lost his inherited birthright. Jacob 
was driven from home because he dispossessed his brother; 
so were the followers of Christ. Jacob stands out in bold 
relief as the great antitype of the sinner and publican. Flee- 
ing from his brother's vengeance, he seeks an asylum among 
his heathen friends, only to find bitterness in the end, and re- 
turns to his Father's house. He is overtaken by the enemy he 
seeks to evade, and would have been destroyed but for the 



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timely interference of the angel. Here he makes a covenant 
never to go back to molest Laban, or invade his territory. So 
does the returning sinner make a covenant never to return to 
the sinful life. 

But Jacob has never repented, or made his wrongs right 
with Esau, and now being freed, justified from Laban and 
his old life with him, he remembers his sin against his brother 
Esau and sends a message of peace to him. Gen. 32. It is 
rejected, and Esau comes to meet him with 400 men. Jacob 
now realizes that the day of vengeance is come : he can not go 
back, Laban will slay him; in dismay he flees to prayer for 
deliverance from the hands of his angry brother. This does 
not satisfy him: he divides his great caravan into two com- 
panies, with the hope that Esau will not get the one in the 
rear with his family. Yet he finds no ease of conscience, but 
tries to conciliate his brother's wrath with presents. He 
sends five different herds of animals, with instructions to the 
drivers as they meet Esau to make him a present of them in 
his name, saying, " I will appease him with the presents that 
go before me and afterwards I will see his face." 

Jacob's struggles in the toils of his old sins are a true type 
of what every returning sinner has to meet ; of which the par- 
able of the prodigal son is Jesus' own version. Restoration for 
wrongs done to others is good and commendable, but will 
never restore the lost faculties of the soul. Yet it paves 
the way for a deeper work of grace in the heart ; and so with 
Jacob, as a last resort he gives up all. He places all he has 
across the brook, including his loved ones, and alone he wres- 
tles with God all through that night of terror; he refuses to 
let him go until he blesses him. His request is granted, his 
name is changed to Israel — A Prince of God, and he is as- 
sured that he has prevailed with God and man. He meets 
Esau and the reconciliation is complete. He and his family 
go home in peace. 

The Holy Spirit has used Jacob as a true type of his work 



130 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

with man in all ages to come, in bringing them to true re- 
pentance and restoration with God and man. He becomes the 
founder of the twelve tribes of Israel, the foundation of the 
church of types and shadows. 

THE TYPE OF TWELVE. 
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB AND THE TWELVE SONS. 

As we find in Abraham a type of God our Father, in Isaac 
a type of Jesus Christ the Son, in Esau and Jacob a type of 
the Jew and Gentile, so we find in the twelve sons of Jacob 
a type of the twelve Apostles of Christ. We find that the 
twelve tribes were always duly honored in all the work of the 
sanctuary. Thus when the law was to be read at Mount 
Sinai Moses set up twelve pillars, in honor of each one of the 
twelve sons of Jacob, with a single altar upon which to offer 
their burnt offerings. The antitype of this is found in Christ, 
the single head of the Church, who made a single offering for 
his Church, and the twelve apostles, the twelve pillars upon 
which he built his Church, and to whom he committed its 
living oracles. Ex. 24: 4. 

Again, in the breastplate of judgment which was to be 
worn continually by the High Priest when he appeared before 
the temple service to do the sacrificial work, were twelve pre- 
cious stones, with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel 
upon them. This memorial of perpetual remembrance finds 
its fulfillment in the final promised restoration of the twelve 
tribes. 

The twelve spies sent out for forty days to investigate the 
promised land, find their antitype in the twelve Apostles' 
forty days' wait for the Holy Spirit ; and the consternation 
in the camp of Israel on the hearing of their report, finds its 
counterpart in the consternation on the day of Pentecost on 
hearing the report of the Holy Spirit's work. The land was 
divided among the twelve tribes by lot, — Num. 24, — and will 
be again. See Ezek. 47 and 48. 



TYPOLOGY.— A DISCOURSE ON TYPES 131 

As Abraham's promised blessings were given for the whole 
earth as a true type of God, the Father of all, so Isaac, as the 
true type of the Son, inherits all. See Heb. 1 : 1-4. Esau is 
the type of the rejected Jew for selling his birthright; Jacob 
the type of the sinners and publicans in whom the Holy Spirit 
does his work. So also is the fullness of the type of 
twelve. The twelve Apostles inherit all the fulness of the 
twelve tribes. " Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judg- 
ing the twelve tribes of Israel." Luke 22: 30. This is the 
promise of Jesus to them. This type, like all types, finds its 
final real meaning in the seventh or last Kingdom, described 
by the seer of Patmos, in Rev. 21 and 22. 



CHAPTER 14. 

The Church in Bondage. 

Diagram No. Six — Joseph, Moses and Christ — The Development 
of the Church — Fulfilled Types — The Type of Forty — Noah 
and the Type of Forty — Type and Antitype of Forty in the 
Second Dispensation — The Forty Days' Fasts — On the Mount 
of Transfiguration — The Forty Years' Wandering in the Wil- 
derness of Sin. 

It must ever be borne in mind that in the study of the types, 
each one is only a part of a great whole, one line perhaps in 
the Master's great outline plan of " Creation, Time and Eter- 
nity." It is not possible to attempt much detail in so vast a. 
plan, except at some of the great points of contact, within 
the compass of this volume, but simply to point out the in- 
dex hands on the mile-posts of the march of the ages, as given 
by the Master Architect himself. 

THE THREE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH. 

It will thus be seen that each one of these three great lead- 
ers stands at the head of a new period in the development of 
the Church of God and the carrying out of his plans. The 
infant Church is nursed in the bosom of the great Egyptian 
Empire, and schooled in its early childhood in its hard service, 
thus eminently fitting it, as a hardy race, for future service. 
As the child is a type of the man, so is this of the future 
church of God, which has been in long and hard service and 
training in a wicked and sin-cursed world, but is about to 
complete her warfare. 

Under Moses we have the second great development period 
of the Church of God. In this period we have the time from 
the call of Moses to the preaching of John the Baptist; a pe- 

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CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 



riod of about 1,500 years. " For the law and the prophets 
were until John; from that time the gospel of the kingdom 
of God is preached, and every man presses into it." Luke 
16: 16. 

THE THREE LEADERS. — JOSEPH, MOSES AND CHRIST. 

Below we give a table showing in parallel columns the com- 
plete harmony existing between the types of Joseph as a 
savior of his people, and Moses as his antitype: and again 
of Moses as a savior of his people and the Lord Jesus as the 
great final antitype of all past ages. 



Diagram No. 6. 



1 JOSEPH. 


2 MOSES. 


3 JESUS CHRIST. 


Church in bondage in 
Egypt. 


Church in bondage 
and also in Prom- 
ised Land. 


The scattered Church 
of Christ in the 
Wilderness. 






(See Rev. 12: 5-6.) 


Attempt to kill him 
when a child. 
Sold into Egypt. 


Attempt to kill him 
when a child. Pha- 
raoh's decree. Ex. 
1-2. 


Attempt to kill Jesus 
when a child. 
Herod's decree. 
Matt. 2: 16. 



Joseph's dreams of his 
future greatness 
bring persecu- 
tions. Gen. 37: 5- 
11. 

Denounced and sold. 



Moses' aspirations to 
free his people. 
Ex. 2: 11, causes 
him to be perse- 
cuted and driven 
into exile. 



"The Jews answered 
Pilate, We have a 
law, and by that 
law he ought to 
die, because he 
made himself the 
Son of God." 
John 19: 7. 



Joseph is persecuted 
and driven into 
exile, but there is 
■made chief. Gen. 
41: 37-44. 



Moses is driven into 
exile and there is 
made chief by 
God. Ex. 3. 



" The stone which 
the builders re- 
jected, the same 
was made the 
head of the cor- 
ner." Matt. 21: 
42. 



Joseph becomes the 
leader and savior 
of his people. 



Moses becomes the 
Leader, Prophet 
and Lawgiver of 
Israel. 



JESUS the CHRIST 
the Savior of the 
world, Prophet, 
Priest and King. 



Joseph led his people 
from a desert 
land of famine to 
the land of Gosh- 
en, the best of all 
Egypt. Gen. 45: 
16-20. 



Moses led his people 
from Egyptian 
slavery and idol- 
atry, to victory, 
freedom, the true 
worship of the 
true God, and a 
"land flowing 
with milk and 
honey." Ex. 3: 7- 



Jesus leads his peo- 
ple from a land of 
sin, sorrow, sick- 
ness and death, 
to one of Eternal 
Life, pe*ace and 
joy. Rev. 7: 13- 
17. 



THE CHURCH IN BONDAGE L2* 

Care must be taken not to confuse the subdivisions of time 
with the three great divisions of the human period. From 
the call of Abraham to the birth of Christ is only one great 
period of 2,000 years, or forty jubilees, just as from Adam to 
Abraham, and, we may safely infer, from the birth of Christ 
to his second advent. One can scarcely fail to see the De- 
signer's plan and work in what has already been passed over ; 
but what we find in the forty years' work of Moses, given 
direct to him by Christ himself, through the mediatorship 
of Angels, is full to perfection of the most beautiful types 
and shadows. These cover every phase of the Messiah's work. 

It is indeed fitting that " He for whom and by whom all 
things were created," should leave us just such a record of 
his wonderful plan of world-building and developing as he 
did. Worked out on a stupendous living scale is given unto 
us, in the law of Moses, the outline plan of " Creation, Time 
and Eternity." Many of these are so clear, beautiful and 
perfect that all doubt must be forever dispelled as to their 
true meaning when once pointed out. Many of them have 
been used time and again by the New Testament - writers, 
as will be noticed frequently in this work ; while many others 
are self-evident to every Bible student. The proof of all 
proofs lies in the fact that the larger part of them have already 
come to pass and have been literally fulfilled. Those that 
have not, still belong to the future history of time and eter- 
nity. As time has been perfectly mapped out in cycles by the 
Master himself, we can with the fullest assurance measure 
what is to be by what has been in the past. 

THE TYPE OF FORTY. THE FORTY YEARS' WANDERING IN THE 
WILDERNESS OF SIN. TYPE AND ANTITYPE. 

The figure forty, so prominent in Holy Writ, has a very 
significant meaning and invariably stands for one of the three 
great periods of time. The greatest natural division of time 
under the law was fifty years; the fiftieth was always a ju- 



136 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

bilee. From Adam to Abraham was 2,000 years, which di- 
vided by fifty, gives us forty jubilees. It was the same again 
from Abraham to the birth of Christ, and, as will be clearly 
shown in the chapters on the cycles of time, from the birth 
of Christ to his second coming will be the same. 

It will thus be seen how harmoniously the figure three, and 
forty, and the key figure seven, unite in one great whole. We 
will briefly note a few of the types of the figure forty at this 
time, to clear up more accurately the typical meaning of the 
forty years' wandering in the wilderness of Sin, by Israel, 
from the time they were delivered from Egyptian bondage, 
until they entered the promised land. 

NOAH AND THE TYPE OF FORTY. 

" For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the 
earth forty days and forty nights." Gen 7: 4. After the 
ark rested on Mount Ararat, Gen. 8 : 4, Noah remained yet 
forty days more in the ark, then sent forth the raven, the 
emblem of sin, and it would not return but remained in the 
world. Gen. 8: 7. He waited seven days, then sent forth 
the dove, the emblem of the Holy Spirit. It returned to him. 
After seven days she was sent out again, and returned at 
eventide with the olive branch, the emblem of peace. 

As we have noted the ark in its emblematical relation to 
the gospel age, we will here only note the question of the 
types of time. 

The seven days before the flood may well stand for this, 
the first dispensation. Gen. 7: 4. The twice seven after the 
flood in like manner for the two succeeding periods of time. 
The forty days' rain represents the forty jubilees of the first 
dispensation of time, and their full and complete destruction. 
The forty days' wait of Noah, Gen. 8: 6, shows that the 
Holy Spirit waits another forty jubilees before he makes his 
final advent into the world, and then the raven precedes him. 
This brings us to Christ's time; and we find, true to type 



THE CHURCH IN BONDAGE 137 

that Satan had preceded him and had taken possession of 
his Church, the Jews. As the dove did not remain or find 
any rest the first time, but returned to Noah, so it was in the 
second period of types and shadows, under the law and proph- 
ets. But the second time, after an all-day's work, she returned 
at eventide with an olive branch in her mouth, the emblem of 
peace: this is the baptism of Jesus, Matt. 3, by the Holy 
Spirit, the dove from heaven. Jesus is the olive branch, and 
is taken back to heaven again by the dove, to his Father's 
house. But a third time Noah sent forth the dove after a 
wait of the last seven days, " And she returned not again 
unto him any more." Gen. 8: 12. At the close of the third 
dispensation of time, which will bring us to the end of the 
sixth working day of the human family on earth ; then will the 
Holy Spirit, in the person of Jesus Christ and all his Saints, 
which are the children of the Holy Spirit, come to earth to 
stay. 

TYPE AND ANTITYPE OF FORTY IN THE SECOND DISPENSATION. 

Moses, the great leader and lawgiver, before the law was 
finally written out by him, fasted forty days and nights (Ex. 
34: 27-28), thus dedicating himself to the work assigned him 
and intended to last until the forty jubilees had expired. 

Elijah fasts forty days on the same mount as Moses did. 
1 Kings 19 : 8. He is the great representative of the prophets 
for this same dispensation, and his work was to last as long 
as did that of Moses. " For the law and the prophets were 
until John, but now the kingdom of heaven is preached, and 
every man presses into it." Luke 16: 16. Moses the type of 
Christ, Elijah the type of John. Here type and antitype meet ; 
type ceases, and shadow vanishes beneath the blazing light 
of the noonday sun, of him who filleth up the full measure of 
all the past ages. And as Moses dedicated the work of his 
dispensation, the law contained in types and shadows; and 
Elijah his prophetic work, which pointed forward to the same 



138 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

end, by a forty days' fast, so did the Lord Jesus Christ also 
dedicate himself and his work by a forty days' fast. He fasted 
most likely in the same wilderness (see Luke 4:1), and prob- 
ably on the very same mountain where did his great proto- 
types. 

The climax of this beautiful figure is reached when we as- 
cend to the top of the mountain with Jesus leading the w T ay, 
and the chosen three, Peter, James and John, following him. 
There they meet with Moses and Elijah and talk of his de- 
cease which will shortly take place at Jerusalem. Moses re- 
alizes that there the law contained in ordinances, and only 
" a shadow of things to come " (Col. 2: 10-19), will be nailed 
to the cross in the body of Christ, and will be " finished." 
John 19: 30. Elijah's work is also done and now he looks 
for its complete fulfilment in this, the long-expected Messiah. 
With a last backward glance at the dim shadows of the great 
lawgiver Moses, and the prophet Elijah, Peter proposes to 
build for them each a tabernacle ; but at this opportune mo- 
ment, God throws a veil over them again, the true emblem 
of the past age, and out of this cloud of the age of types 
and shadows now past and gone, he speaks to Peter, James 
and John, the three great representatives of the New Testa- 
ment dispensation, saying, " This is my beloved Son, in whom I 
am well pleased: hear ye him." Matt. 17: 1-8. Virtually, 
all the rights and titles of Moses and Elijah are here trans- 
ferred to the Lord Jesus Christ, and God the Father so ac- 
knowledges it. This is in fulfillment of what Moses said, 
Deut. 18, and Acts 3: 22, 23. 

After his resurrection, Jesus remains forty days on earth 
with his disciples, dedicating this the third dispensation to 
the Holy Spirit's work, which is to take his place in ten days. 
Thus we have him in his flesh, at the beginning of his work, 
taking a forty days' fast, indicating the passing away of the 
second dispensation and the dedicating of himself to his work, 
and the forty days' work before he ascends to> his home above, 



THE CHURCH IN BONDAGE 139 

there to remain until the fulness of time (see Acts 3: 21), 
which would be forty jubilees, in harmony with all the types. 
The three great types of the Kingdoms of Saul, David and 
Solomon, who each reigned forty years, will be found in a 
later chapter treating on that part of the work. The forty 
days of the twelve spies in the promised land, spying out the 
land, well prefigures their forty years' wandering, for their 
lack of faith ; while their forty years' wandering points us, 
first, to the Christian journey of life, from the life of bondage 
and sin, which is Egypt, through the wilderness of sin, and 
the final triumphant entry into the promised land. Second, 
and more definitely, it represents the full period of forty jubi- 
lees of the third dispensation, — the Church of Christ on earth. 
We will now take up enough of the salient points in these 
wonderful types to make them stand out in bold relief, and fol- 
low them in their logical order as they have been unfolded by 
the great Architect himself. 



CHAPTER 15. 

From Egypt to the Promised Land. Types and 

Antitypes. 

Egypt a Type of the World — Pharaoh a Type of Satan — The De- 
struction of Egypt a Type of the Destruction of the Jews — 
Diagram No. Seven — The Passover Lamb — The High Sabbath 
— The Wave Sheaf — Pentecost — Diagram No. Eight, Showing 
the Types and Antitypes from the Beginning of the Year to 
Pentecost. 

EGYPT A TYPE OF THE WORLD. 

Egypt ever stands as a fitting type of a lost and sinful 
world. Even to this day we look upon her ancient idols of 
silver and gold; her wonderful embalmed mummies, many of 
which were once worshiped as gods. Her mighty monu- 
ments, which have defied the ravages of the centuries, still 
attest to her ancient splendor and wealth, made largely by the 
enslaved toil of God's chosen people. Ex. 1 : 8-14. Jesus 
said of his disciples, " They are not of the world, even as I 
am not of the world." John 17: 14. Even so it was with 
the children of Israel in Egypt: they were in Egypt, but not 
of Egypt. 

When the time had fully come, God decided to call them out, 
and use them as a great living pattern for his real, spiritual 
church which was yet to come. Conditions in the church at 
Jerusalem when Jesus came to them were very similar to 
what they were in Egypt when Moses was sent to deliver Is- 
rael. The Jews were under the Roman yoke, and enslaved to 
all manner of corruption in their religion, so that the few who 
were still true worshipers were mere slaves to them. The 
Israelites were slaves to the Egyptians, slaves to their own 
lusts and passions, without a home, without a church, without 

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142 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

a country, without a shepherd. The parallels in type and anti- 
type meet. 

PHARAOH A TYPE OF SATAN. 

Pharaoh stands as a perfect type of Satan in the new dis- 
pensation. He issued a decree for the destruction of 
the male children. So did Herod in his attempt to destroy 
Christ. See Matt. 2: 16; Rev. 12: 1-6. In the last reference 
Herod is the representative of the dragon (See Rev. 12: 1-6) 
that stands before the woman (the Jewish church, from whom 
Christ was born), ready to devour her child. But after 
leading out his church, the woman, he goes back to heaven, 
and his church remains (the old corrupt Jewish church per- 
ishes), and flees into the wilderness until the reformation 
at the end of the thousand two hundred and threescore days. 
(1260 A. D.) The type is entirely true to this. Pharaoh 
did all in his power to retain Israel as a slave and drive Moses 
the deliverer out from his presence. The old dead, formal 
Jewish church, with the aid of the dragon, the Roman power 
(Herod), did the same with Christ and his people. Ten times 
did God send Moses to plead with Pharaoh to let his peo- 
ple go and worship him, but he would not. Ten is an in- 
definite number in the types, and simply signifies many times : 
this is what Jesus says of the Jews that God had done for 
them. 

We quote from Jesus' own language to the Jews, in his 
last farewell address to them as he stood in their beautiful 
temple pleading with them for the last time to' repent. 
" Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are the sons 
of them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure 
of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how 
shall ye escape the judgment of hell? Therefore, behold, I 
send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : some of 
them shall ye kill and crucify: and some of them shall ye 
scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the 



FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND 143 

earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood 
of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the 
sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, all these 
things shall come upon this generation." Matt. 23: 31-36. 
Oh, how marvelously full and complete this type is in every 
particular. Pharaoh hardened his heart until Egypt was de- 
stroyed by the terrible plagues sent upon him to cause him to 
relent, — Ex. 10: 7, — and finally he and all his army perished 
in a vain effort to recover their lost captives. It is a true 
figure of the rebellious Jews who were destroyed A. D. 70 
by the Romans, just as Jesus told them it would happen. 

The last plague that was sent upon him and all his people 
was the midnight death of the first-born of everything in 
Egypt, except what was protected by the blood of the paschal 
lamb, which in itself was the true type of Christ. God told 
Israel to put the blood upon the door-posts and lintels of their 
houses, " And when I see the blood I will pass over you." 
Ex. 12: 13. The Jewish church was the first-born to God, 
but like the Egyptians, it perished for its sins. " Jesus, the 
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," saves 
all that get under his care, and accept his atoning blood. 
John 3 : 16. This price released them and they went out of 
Egypt full. The like figure, the life of God's only Son, re- 
leases us and sets us free, and sends us out full and complete 
in all spiritual things. 

THE PASSOVER LAMB, THE HIGH SABBATH, THE WAVE SHEAF, 

PENTECOST. 

Of all the many wonderful types, this trio is among the 
most prominent, beautiful, and far-reaching of any given. As 
it marks the end of Egyptian bondage, so it prefigures the 
end of itself in the coming Messiah. As it marks the begin- 
ning of time with this new-born people just emerging from 
Egyptian bondage, so it clearly points out the beginning of 



144 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

the emerging of the first souls from the resurrection of the 
dead. 

In the following tabulated form, we will follow the events 
in order, with the type and antitype. We ask the student to 
follow us with the BOOK, and let it tell its own story. 

Abib was to be the beginning of time with them (Ex. 12: 
2; 13: 4), which with us most nearly corresponds to the month 
of March. (Jewish time of reckoning a day was from sun- 
down to sun-down.) 

In diagram No. 7 no attempt has been made to give the 
details of comparison in full. The aim has been so to present 
the outline in a clear, comprehensive manner, that it may be 
easily understood by the common Bible student, who will use 
his Bible freely for comparison. These days, and their work 
so carefully and solemnly charged to be perpetually kept 
throughout their generations forever (Ex. 12: 14), were 
zealously kept for over 1,500 years with some interruptions, 
until the Master himself came and declared, " Think not 
that I came to destroy the law or the prophets : I came 
not to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till 
heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in 
no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accom- 
plished. " He proceeds at once in Matt. 5, 6, and 7, to unfold 
his spiritual law for the spiritual Kingdom he was beginning 
to establish. " Ye have heard that it was said." He quotes 
from the very Decalogue itself (see Matt. 5: 27, 33, 38) and 
then, " Speaks as one having authority," Matt. 7 : 29, " But 
I say unto you," Matt. 5 : 22, 28, 34, etc. 

This marvelous unfolding of the types and shadows of the 
Mosaic laws was in himself continued, until the last one of 
them was literally fulfilled in and by himself. While dying on 
the cross he could say in triumph, " It is finished." And Paul 
could rightly say, " Blotting out the handwriting of ordi- 
nances that was against us, and took it out of the way, nail- 
ing it to his cross. . . . Let no man therefore judge you 



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145 



in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the 
new moon, or of the sabbath days : Which are a shadow of 
things to come; but the body is of Christ." Col. 2: 14-17. 



Diagram No. 7. 





TYPE. 




ANTITYPE. 


c < 

fig 
10 


The passover lamb was 
always taken up on this 
day and kept until the 14th 
of "the month, then killed. 
See Ex. 12. 


5 
<** 

fig 

10 


Jesus enters Jerusalem 
in triumph on this day, 
first evening. In the morn- 
ing of the same day (Mon- 
day) he cleanses the tem- 
ple. He comes as the lamb 
is taken up and never 
leaves Jerusalem again, un- 
til his resurrection. John 
12: 1, 12. 


11 

to 

13 

Day 


TYPE. 

Last warning to Pharaoh 
to let Israel go; death of 
first-born threatened, and 
last final instructions to 
Israel what they should 
do, to be ready; and about 
the passover to be eaten 
that night. Ex. 11 and 12. 

Moses the mediator — a 
servant. 
Heb. 3: 5. 


11 

to 

13 

Day 


I ANTITYPE. 

Jesus' farewell discourses 
to the people, and last 
warning to the Scribes and 
Pharisees in the temple. 
The seven last woes. Matt. 
23. Final instruction to 
the twelve Apostles. Matt. 
24 to 26. Christ the Mas- 
ter in his own house. Heb. 
3: 6. 


14 
Day 


TYPE. 

This was always the 
preparation day for the 
passover. Ex. 12: 6, 15. All 
leaven must be cleansed 
out. The paschal lamb 
slain. The passover all 
made ready to eat by the 
going down of the sun, or 
by the beginning of the 
15th day. 


14 
Day 


ANTITYPE. 

Jesus prepares himself 
for his last work, the 
Atonement on the Cross. 
Meets in the upper room 
after sundown of the 13th; 
1st eve of the 14th. In- 
stitutes the ordinances of 
his own house. John 13; 
Luke 22: 14-20. Sold like 
a lamb. 

Farewell address and 
prayer for his disciples. 
John 13 to 17. 

Betrayal, crucifixion and 
burial before sundown of 
this, the 14th day. " IT IS 
FINISHED." John 19: 30. 
(The laws of types.) 



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15 
Day 


TYPE. 

The Passover eaten after 
sundown of the 14th day, 
or on the beginning of the 
15th. 

Death of the first-born 
in all Egypt at midnight. 
This day always came on 
the Vernal-equinox, or was 
governed by it. 

Israel leaves Egypt for 
the Wilderness of Sin. Ex. 
12: 29-36. 

This is the High Sab- 
bath, John 19: 31, and gov- 
erned all the rest of the 
feasts for the year, as well 
as the Jews' weeks and 
years. Lev. 23: 4-21. 


15 
Day 


ANTITYPE. 

Jesus put in the tomb 
before the sundown of the 
14th day. John 19: 31. "JE- 
SUS LORD OF THE 
SABBATH, Luke 6: 5, lies 
in the tomb all of this Sab- 
bath. 

Rest from his finished 
work. 


16 
Day 


TYPE. 

Sheaf of the first-fruits, 
wave-sheaf (Lev. 23: 9-11) 
offered. 

" Ye shall eat neither 
bread, nor parched grain, 
nor fresh ears, until this 
selfsame day." L v. 23: 14. 

Count from this day 7 
sabbaths, or weeks, to 
Pentecost, 7X7=49, next, 
or 50th day. 


16 
Day 


ANTITYPE. 

" But now hath Christ 
been raised from the dead, 
the first fruits of them that 
are asleep." 1 Cor. 15: 20. 

The first resurrection. 
Matt. 27: 52-53. 

See Matt. 28: 1-6. 


14 
to 
21 


TYPE. 

The seven days, from the 
14th to 21st of Abib, was 
the feast of unleavened 
bread. Ex. 12: 15-20. 

Seven a full type of time. 
Thoroughly cleansed from 
the old leaven. 




ANTITYPE. 

Jesus is absent from his 
disciples from one Lord's 
day to the next after his 
resurrection. See John 20: 
19, 26. 20th Century N. T v 

" Dead to the law 
through the body of 
CHRIST." Rom. 7: 1-4; 8: 
2; Gal. 5: 18. 


50 

Dav 


TYPE. 
Pentecost. 50th day. 
" Ye shall offer a new 
meal-offering unto Jeho- 
vah." Lev. 23: 15-21. Two 
wave-loaves, made with 
leaven. 7 lambs, 4 rams, 1 
bullock, 1 goat, a meal and 
drink offering. 




ANTITYPE. 

Pentecost, Holy Spirit 
given. Acts 2: 1-4. 

This the new meal and 
the new leaven. " Promise 
to all." Acts 2: 39. 

Many animals, all Na- 
tions. 



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147 



Paul makes his statements very specific about new moon, 
feast days, or holy days, which is the same, and sabbath days 
being but a shadow of things to come. Nowhere in all of the 
twenty-seven books of the New Testament is any exception 



Diagram No. 8. 

JEWISH METHOD OF RECKONING THEIR TIME. 

" The Jews celebrated their passover on the 14th day of the 
first month, that is to say, the lunar month of which the 14th 
day either falls on or next follows the day of the vernal equi- 
nox." Encyc. Britannica, Vol. 4, Art. Cal. 



Sab. 
Sab. 



— 1 



Abib, the first month, 
always oegan with a sab- 
bath. 

A sabbath. 
TYPE. 



ANTITYPE. 



10 

14 
Sab.— 15 

Count — 
7 Sab. 16 



to pen. 2 
3 
4 
5 
6 

1 Sab. 7 



9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
2 Sab. 14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 



Passover lamb taken up. 

Passover lamb slain. 
Death of first-born. 
High Sabbath. 

Wave sheaf of the first 
fruits offered. 



7 days of feast, perfect 
time, symbol of perfect 
cleansing and a full period 
or dispensation. 

— 21 — Ends feast of un- 
leavened bread. 



This 40 days is a type 
of time. Each one of the 



Jesus comes to Jerusalem 
to die. 

Jesus is crucified. 

Jesus the first-born, in 
tomb. 

Jesus' resurrection from 
the dead. First fruits of the 
dead. 



From his resurrection to 
the next Lord's day, Jesus is 
absent from his apostles, 7 
days. 



Jesus dedicates this the 
third dispensation, by his 40 



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20 

3 Sab. 21 

22 
23 
24 
. 25 
26 
27 

4 Sab. 28 

29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 

5 Sab. 35 

36 
37 
38 
39 
40 



41 

5 Sab. 42 

43 

44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
7 Sab. 49 



50 



three dispensations have days' work on earth after his 
40 jubilees in them. See resurrection, 
type of 40. 



Moses fasts 40 days in 
Mt. Sinai before receiving 
the law. Ex. 24: 18. 



Moses prepares the peo- 
ple to receive the law. 



Old ends at the 49th 
day — Sabbath. 

Day of Pentecost. Law 
given at Mt. Sinai. Har- 
vest offering. 



Jesus remains on earth 
these 40 days, then ascends 
to heaven. 



These ten days are spent 
by the disciples in constant 
prayer, preparing to receive 
the Holy Spirit. Acts 1. 



New begins on the 50th. 
or Lord's Day. 

Holy Spirit given. Peter's 
sermon. A harvest offering 
of 3,000 souls. 



to this rule in any of the sacred writers in their interpreting 
of the law and prophets : " But the body is of Christ," and in 
him all are fulfilled. We stop to point the reader to these 
self-vindicating claims of the sacred writers, lest we be ac- 
cused of being visionary, or of having far-fetched theories. 

We give in diagram No. 8 these dates in condensed form 
with their types and antitypes in brief. 

The vernal equinox in 1910 falls on March 21st, which is 
Monday ; hence this is the 14th day of Abib (barring changing 



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of dates because of the moon phases). This day governed the 
entire Jewish year, regulated all their feast days. Vernal 
means spring time ; equinox means equal day and night. This 
is in itself a most fitting type of the spring-time of Christian- 
ity, resurrected to life through Jesus Christ, the mighty Maker 
of the life of the natural and spiritual world : the ending of 
the long winter of lifeless formality of the ceremonial law, 
and ushering in of the morning of ETERNAL LIFE. 



CHAPTER 16. 

The Forty Years' Wandering in the Wilderness of Sin. 

Crossing the Red Sea — The Song of Moses and the Lamb — The 
Wilderness of Sin — Manna — Mount Sinai — The Tabernacle — 
The Temple — The Seven Steps from the Altar to the Holy 
City. 

As we pursue our journey from Egypt to the promised 
land, we find every move a type of something yet to come. 
In the wonderful types just examined, we found Israel re- 
deemed from Egyptian bondage. While they went out full, 
Egypt was ruined. It cost her her slaves, her crops, her honor 
and glory, her first-born sons, and at last the king and all his 
army lost their lives in a last vain attempt to regain possession 
of her fleeing slaves. 

All this we have found true to life, beginning with the work 
of Christ. We find the Jews themselves in worse than Egyp- 
tian bondage when their long-expected Messiah came. Filled 
with religious bigotry, fanatical zeal, ignorance and supersti- 
tion : in their blindness they filled every measure of the same 
type that once freed them, and now is their fall in its fulfill- 
ment. In their vain attempt to stamp out Christ, they ask 
Pilate that " His blood might be upon them and their chil- 
dren." Matt. 27 : 25. This was fully granted them : for 
they met with nothing but disaster after disaster until finally 
they were destroyed as completely as Egypt had been. This 
is the foreordination of which Paul wrote (Rom. 9: 17), and 
was wrought for the glory of God and the salvation of man. 

CROSSING THE RED SEA. 

" For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our 
fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the 

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sea: and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in 
the sea: and did all eat the same spiritual food: and did all 
drink the same spiritual drink : for they drank of the spiritual 
rock that followed them : and the rock was Christ. Howbeit 
with most of them God was not well pleased : for they were 
overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our 
examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, 
as they also' lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some 
of them*: as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, 
and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as 
some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty 
thousand. Neither let us make, trial of the Lord, as some of 
them made trial, and perished by the serpents. Neither mur- 
mur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the 
destroyer. Now these things happened unto them by way of 
example: and they were written for our admonition, upon 
whom the ends of the ages are come." 1 Cor. 10: 1-11. 

Here the great Apostle Paul has shown us most beautifully 
the type and antitype of the crossing of the Red Sea by 
Israel, and the results of their after-sinning. He closes with 
the statement that it happened unto them by way of example, 
and has been written for our benefit. This is indeed the 
purpose of all the types, and the reason why they were given ; 
that in the ages to come God might show forth his wisdom 
and power and glory. 

What a mighty drama: all heaven with its teeming millions 
as an audience to witness it, all the earth as a stage of action, 
and a full cycle of time to accomplish it in ! 

In the very beginning of their journey to the promised land, 
all are baptized under Moses. So also in the antitype. Jesus 
himself began his mission and work after his baptism by 
John ; so did all that followed after him. Paul tells us that 
" The rock that followed them was Christ." Jesus himself 
was Moses' instructor in all this forty years' work, working 
out his own great plan of the ages to come. 



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That the crossing of the Red Sea was accomplished on the 
morning of the sixteenth, the morning on which the wave 
sheaf was ever after given as a memorial of the first fruits, 
is beyond a doubt true. See Ex. 14: 1, 2, 19-29. Thus Israel 
here becomes the wave sheaf type of the first fruits unto God. 

THE SONG OF MOSES. 

Exodus 15 records the song of Moses, a song of triumph 
and adoration and praise, because of their wonderful de- 
liverance from their enemies ; and the complete overthrow 
of their enemies, the Egyptians, in the sea. Never would 
they be molested by them again, — they were all dead ; " And 
Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore." Ex. 14: 
30. Not one escaped. 

THE SONG OF MOSES AND THE LAMB. REV. 15: 2-4. 

Here again we have the real, the substance, the antitype. 
This song is the song of final, complete triumph of the re- 
deemed, who will attend our Lord on his victorious return to 
this earth at his second coming. It is stated three times, 
in Rev. 7: 10-12; 19: 1-10, and the passage quoted below. 
Each of these passages refers to the same event : " And I saw 
as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that 
came off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and 
from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, 
having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the 
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, 

" Great and 'marvelous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty: 
Righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages. 
Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? 
For thou only art holy: 

For all the nations shall come and worship before thee: 
For thy righteous acts have been made manifest." 

—Rev. 15: 2-4. 

What can be more beautiful and harmonious, — the redeemed 
of all ages in one grand harmonious song of praise, " singing 
the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the 



154 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Lamb ; " through whose all-conquering grace and power we 
can come off victors over sin, death, hell and the grave ! 

THE WILDERNESS OF SIN. MANNA. 

On the 15th day of the second month they came into the 
Wilderness of Sin. Here their food gave out and they were 
fed miraculously with manna for forty years, or until they 
entered the promised land. Ex. 16: 35. Jesus himself gives 
the true antitype of this, when the Jews ask for a sign, and 
make their claims for the sign that Moses gave by feeding 
them with manna, even as he had fed them the day before 
on bread and fishes. See John 6: 11-14. They say to him, 
" Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness : as it is writ- 
ten ; He gave them bread out of heaven to eat. Jesus there- 
fore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, it was 
not Moses that gave you bread out of heaven to eat : but my 
Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven. . . . Jesus 
said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to 
me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never 
thirst. . . . Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, 
and they died. This is the bread which cometh down out of 
heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the 
living bread which came down out of heaven : if any man 
eat this bread, he shall live forever: yea, and the bread which 
I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world." John 6: 31- 
35; 49-51. 

The final fulfillment of this beautiful type will be in the 
restored paradise of God for the redeemed. Rev. 22: 1-3. 
But while we are marching through the wilderness of sin, 
our Master has taught us to be content to ask our Father to 
" Give us this day our daily bread." 

The first temptation our father Adam had to meet was the 
appetite, and he fell. Gen. 3 : 1-19. Christ is at once prom- 
ised. Gen. 3:15. He meets Satan at the very point where 
Adam fell, and defeats him. Matt. 4 : 1-4. He cites him to the 



FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 155 

very passage of scripture that Moses gave to Israel as a rea- 
son why God fed them manna forty years. " It is written, 
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that 
proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Deut. 8 : 3. 

MOUNT SINAI. THE TABERNACLE. 

We pass, with a notice, the many murmurings and com- 
plainings of the children of Israel as they thirst for water, or 
hunger for the flesh-pots of Egypt, with many other fault- 
findings against Moses, as all having their counterpart in the 
daily life of many of the would-be followers of the meek and 
lowly lamb of God, who said, "If any man would come after 
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 
For whosoever would save his life shall lose it : and whoso- 
ever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it." Matt. 16: 
24, 25. 

They arrive at Mt. Sinai on the third month (Ex. 19: 1), 
where on the day of Pentecost, they hear the voice of God 
declaring unto them the ten commandments (Ex. 19: 16; 20), 
and have the law read to them by Moses ; enter into a cove- 
nant with God ; and have the blood of the covenant sprinkled 
upon them, upon the book (Heb. 9: 19), and the altar. Ex. 
24: 1-8. Following this in rapid order we have the tabernacle 
made and all set up on the first day of the first month, just 
one year from the time they left Egypt. Ex. 40: 17. 

For the first time in the history of the world does God 
take out a people and organize them into a strong central 
government with himself as its Leader in the very heart and 
center of them. Each one of the twelve tribes has his special 
place appointed and even the very place where he was to en- 
camp around the tabernacle ; each has his place in the march 
and in the work to be done. The work of the ministry of the 
Levites, and all the priests, is given in the minutest detail. 
Every offering is specified and particularized in detail, as to 



156 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

kind and quality, and for what purpose: who should offer it 
and how and why and where and when. 

Every piece of furniture for the tabernacle is specified ; not 
one thing is left for Israel but to see that all the specific com- 
mands of Jehovah are fully carried out. The kind of timber 
and metal out of which it was to be made, how much, just 
how large it was to be, who was to do the work, the very 
day it was to be set up, — all was specifically given. Jesus 
the Master Architect himself gave the blueprint to Moses his 
servant to carry out. " Moses indeed was faithful in all his 
house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which 
were afterwards to be spoken : But Christ as a Son, over his 
own house : whose house are we, if we hold fast . . 
firm unto the end." Heb. 3 : 1-6. 

The tabernacle was only a type or pattern of what the tem- 
ple was to be when the kingdom was more fully established 
under David and Solomon. God gave Moses the pattern of 
the tabernacle, and charged him very carefully to make it 
after the pattern. See Ex. 25: 40; Heb. 8: 1-5. He gave to 
King David again specific instruction how the temple was to 
be built. It was much larger and a substantial building, cov- 
ered entirely with pure gold inside. David gave this pattern 
to his son Solomon. 1 Chron. 28: 11-12. The temple of Zer- 
ubbabel (Ezra 3:8), and of King Herod, rebuilt in the time 
of Christ, were only restorations of Solomon's temple, with 
some extensive enlargements and improvements by Herod on 
the last temple. Herod's temple was destroyed A. D. 70 
by the Romans under Titus and Vespasian. 

Since that time, no more temples have been built by the 
chosen people, but " The abomination of desolation," spoken 
of by Daniel the prophet (Dan. 9: 26, 27), and confirmed by 
our Lord in his last words before his crucifixion (Matt. 24: 
15), have held the temple site, and will "Until the times of 
the Gentiles will be fulfilled." Luke 21 : 24. Ezekiel's tem- 
ple, so graphically and beautifully described by Ezekiel in the 



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latter part of his book (see chapters 39 to 44), will be built 
after the return of the Jews to Palestine and the second com- 
ing- of Christ. See Ezek. 39: 25-29; 37: 21-28. "Moreover 
I will make a covenant of peace with them : it shall be an 
everlasting covenant with them : and I will place them, and 
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them 
for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them : and 
I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the 
nations shall know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, 
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever- 
more." Ezek. 37: 26-28. "And my servant David shall be 
king - over them ; and they shall have one shepherd." Verse 
24 same chapter. Jesus himself said, " And other sheep I have, 
which are not of this fold : them also I must bring, and they 
shall hear my voice : and they shall become one flock, one 
shepherd." John 10: 16. 

How beautifully and perfectly all the types and their anti- 
types meet : each constantly pointing you forward to the more 
perfect which is still to come. So is the tablernacle set up in 
the Wilderness of Sin a type of God's presence with them ; but 
the Ezekiel temple, as already noted and quoted, is not an 
emblem, but is the real, the substance to be with us during the 
millennial reign of Christ. Rev. 7 : 20 : 4-6. 

Let us notice a few quotations from the New Testament 
writers on this great type and its fulfillment in the final dis- 
pensation of God's perfected work: 

" Now in the things which we are saying the chief point 
is this : We have such a high priest, who sat' down on the 
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a 
minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which 
the Lord pitched, not man. For every high priest is appointed 
to offer both gifts and sacrifices : wherefore it is necessary 
that this high priest also have somewhat to offer. Now if he 
were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there 
are those who offer the gifts according to the law : who serve 



158 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

that which is a copy and shadow of heavenly things, even as 
Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the taber- 
nacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according 
to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount." Heb. 
8: 1-5. Here we have the tabernacle and its service plainly 
pointed out as types or shadows of the real in heaven, as also 
we have again in Heb. 9: 23. Also we have it clearly stated 
that " the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the 
holy place hath not been made manifest, while the first taber- 
nacle was yet standing: which is a figure for the time present." 
Heb. 9: 8, 9. Finally, we find this type finished in a cycle of 
seven, as follows : 

1. We have the Altar as a meeting place between God and 
man. Gen. 4 : 3-9 ; 8 : 20. 

2. The Tabernacle succeeds and perpetuates it. 

3. The Temple is the tabernacle's successor, and it in turn 
is done away in Christ, until he comes again. Joel 3: 14-21. 

4. The Synagogue is the forerunner of the Christian Church. 

5. The Christian Church. 

6. The establishing of the Kingdom of Heaven, with Christ 
as its King at Jerusalem, the return of the Jews to their prom- 
ised land (see the above scripture), and the rebuilding of the 
Temple at that time, as already noted. 

7. And last, we have the completion of this wonderful type 
of heavenly things in the final restitution of all things as de- 
scribed in Rev. 21 and 22. 

The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, will succeed the old 
Jerusalem and its typical, incomplete worship of the one great 
God. " Behold, I make all things new." Rev. 21 : 5. Again, 
" The tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with 
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall 
be with them, and be their God : and he shall wipe away every 



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tear from their eyes ; and death shall be no more ; neither shall 
there be mourning, nor crying nor pain any more: the first 
things are passed away. And he that stitteth on the throne 
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: 
for these words are faithful and true." Rev. 21 ; 3-5, 



CHAPTER 17. 

The Forty Years' Wandering in The Wilderness of 

Sin. — Continued. 

Sending Out of the Twelve Spies — Types Of — Moses a Type of 
Jesus — Who Entered the Promised Land — Type and Antitype 
— Caleb and Joshua — Joshua and Christ Jesus. 

TYPE OF THE TWELVE SPIES. 

Continuing our study of the forty years' wandering in the 
Wilderness of Sin, as to their true purpose in the great plan 
of the ages, we will pass by the feast days and many details 
of the tabernacle, mainly for the present, in order to see 
the outline of the fuller type of it as a whole. 

In Numbers 13 and 14, we have the account of the sending 
out of the twelve spies, each one a representative of one of 
the twelve tribes, with a commission from Jehovah through 
Moses to investigate the land for themselves, and report it 
again to all the people. They did so, and found it all that 
Jehovah had stated or promised that it was. But the dif- 
ficulties that were encountered they said were too great to be 
overcome. This was the report of ten of them, Caleb and 
Joshua alone declaring that with the help of God they could 
easily gain the victory over the terrible giants that now held 
possession of the far-famed promised land. But they plead 
all in vain ; the cry went up, " Stone them ! Let us go back 
into Egypt." It is in following up and losing ourselves in 
the details of the lesson story, that we fail to catch the great 
outline plan of God, prearranged to his honor and glory and 
the salvation of man through all the ages to come. 

For each day that the twelve spies were out (forty days), 
they were given a year in the Wilderness of Sin. Num. 14: 

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162 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

32-35. All that had been numbered in the beginning when 
they left Egypt, perished during the forty years' wandering 
in the wilderness, except Caleb and Joshua. What can be 
the meaning of this wonderful type in the Christian econ- 
omy of the grace of God? Let us remember the admonition 
of the great Apostle Paul, that " These things happened unto 
them by way of example ; and they were written for our ad- 
monition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come." 1 
Cor. 10: 11. Then it is no idle fancy or mere theory to place 
this as a part of the plan of God in his economy of grace for 
the future ages to come. 

The twelve Apostles were chosen to represent the twelve 
tribes of Israel, for Christ, in the new dispensation, when he 
had come to lead Israel out of their bondage of sin under the 
law. See Gal. 4: 1-6; read carefully. These twelve Apostles 
were with Jesus forty days after his resurrection, " To whom 
he also showed himself ALIVE after his passion by many 
proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and 
speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God." Acts 
1 : 3. This corresponds to the forty days of the spies. They 
were to OVERCOME the WORLD. " Go ye therefore, and 
make disciples of all the nations," was the command Jesus 
gave to them. Matt. 28: 19. They, too, were to begin at 
Jerusalem (Acts 1: 8), that is, first enlist their brethren, the 
Jews, into helping them to conquer the world. Upon the day 
of Pentecost they, like the twelve spies, gave their reports tc 
the Jews, their brethren, and were rejected. True, a small 
minority accepted them (about 3,000), but as a nation they 
were just as -bad and stubborn as their brethren in the wilder- 
ness with Moses, and fulfilled the type to the very jot and 
tittle. 

For forty years (from A. D. 30 to A. D. 70), the Apostles 
preached to them at Jerusalem ; then Jerusalem was destroyed. 
The Jews said of Jesus, " If we let him thus alone, all men 
will believe on him : and the Romans will come and take away 



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both our place and our nation." John 11: 47, 48. The very 
thing they feared most, came upon them, just as it did on 
their brethren who rebelled in the wilderness and said, 
" Wherefore doth Jehovah bring us into this land to fall by 
the edge of the sword? " NHim. 14: 3. This type reaches even 
farther. The great Apostle Paul foresaw it clearly in its 
fullest aspect when he said to his Gentile brethren, that " by 
their fall, salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them 
to jealousy. Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and 
their loss the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their 
fulness? (The Jews at their final restoration.) Rom. 11: 11, 
12. 

Even though the old race that was numbered, that came out 
of Egypt, all fell: the new race, after the full forty years, did 
enter into the promised land. So will the Jew again enter in 
and take literal possession of all that was promised to him. 
" For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mys- 
tery . . . that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, 
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; and so all Israel 
shall be saved." Rom. 11: 25, 26. In the light of the types 
and shadows we may clearly see that that will be a period of 
forty jubilees, or one full dispensation of time, as the fulness 
of the Gentiles will not be complete until " This gospel of the 
kingdom has been first preached to all nations," as Jesus 
commanded, Matt. 28: 19 and Matt. 24: 14. When this is 
completed, then Jesus says the end shall come. 

That this will be the final restoration of the Jews to their 
long-forfeited rights in their Abrahamic promise, there can be 
no doubt in the light of all prophecy and history, and all the 
scriptures bearing upon the question. It was Jesus who said 
to the Jews that " the last shall be first [meaning the Gen- 
tiles] and the first shall be last," meaning the Jews. Matt. 
19: 30. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, gives us the finale 
of this type in his address to the Church of the Ephesians. 
" That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might 



164 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in 
heaven, and which are in earth ; even in him." Eph. 1 : 10. 

MOSES A TYPE OF JESUS. 

As this question has been already noticed in a previous chap- 
ter, we will mention it here only in its logical connection with 
the events. 

He led the children of Israel direct for forty years, which 
prefigures one full period of time, or forty jubilees (2,000 
years), down to Christ's time. So will Christ through this 
dispensation, which will be full forty jubilees, at the close of 
this present century. Full time again. 

Moses was not permitted to enter the promised land, while 
in the flesh; but beheld it afar off, then died on the top of 
Mount Nebo and was buried by Jehovah. Deut 34: 1-6. 

He was the great prototype of Jesus the Christ. Jesus led 
his people to the fullest realization of all the promises that 
God had made to the children of man, from the creation of 
the first man Adam, who died for his sin, unto the second 
Adam, the Lord from heaven, who died for the sins of the 
whole world. Jesus led the whole Jewish race to the brink of 
Jordan, and there he died on Mount Zion. Like Moses he was 
not permitted to enter the promised land without first tast- 
ing death. 

WHO ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND. TYPE AND ANTITYPES. 

It has been argued that the wandering in the wilderness 
could not be a type of the Christian's journey from earth to 
heaven: this has come from a failure fully to comprehend 
it. Again, the crossing of the Jordan has been held as a type 
of death,— another fatal mistake. Nobody died there; the 
sinners were all dead, against whom Jehovah had pronounced 
the curse that they should not enter in. Moses, the man of 
God, had also died last of all for the sins of himself and 
people. The human side of all this does not supersede the 



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divine cause for it, but rather is made to serve it. So let us 
see what the true type and antitype are. 

The old sinners were all baptized unto Moses, and all died 
in the Wilderness of Sin. Paul, who used these types con- 
tinually, says, " Or are ye ignorant that all we who were bap- 
tized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" Rom. 
6: 3. This type is absolutely perfect. The old sinner that came 
out of Egyptian bondage, though he was redeemed from it, 
died in the Wilderness of Sin. So it is with us : though we are 
redeemed from the bondage of sin, yet the old man, the body 
of sin upon whom the sentence of death was passed as soon 
as he had sinned in the Garden of Eden, must die in the 
wilderness of sin. But the young generation, the " New Man," 
did enter into the promised land. Again the Apostle says, 
" Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ; 
the old things are passed away; behold they are become new." 
2 Cor. 5: 18. 

This is clear, then, that the old man of sin is represented 
by these old Egyptian slaves, who never could fully shake off 
their desire to return to Egypt again, and all died en route to 
the promised land ; while the " New Man " in Christ Jesus is 
represented by the new generation who were never in bondage 
in Egypt, and were born and raised under the instruction of 
Moses in the wilderness. " Even so reckon ye also yourselves 
to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus." Rom. 
6: 11. Here is the true type of the carnal or earthly man, 
flesh and blood, which cannot inherit the kingdom of God 
(See 1 Cor. 15: 50), and the Spiritual man who alone can 
inherit the kingdom of heaven, or " Inherit the earth " (Matt. 
5:5), which is the promised land to Abraham and his seed. 
Gen. 22: 17, 18. 

Caleb and joshua. — num. 26: 63-65. 

Here are two men that came out of the old order of things 
and are permitted to go into the promised land. Are we 
justified in believing that they also represent some great type 



166 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

in the plan of God? We believe they do. Enoch was trans- 
lated as a representative of the first dispensation, Gen. 5: 21- 
24. Elijah was translated as the representative of the second 
dispensation (see 2 Kings 1: 11). So have we here in this 
type two men as it were translated from the old to the new 
order of things without tasting of death. These also point out 
unto us things which were yet to come. Moses and Elijah 
stand with Jesus in glory, even before he is crucified and 
resurrected from the dead as the " First fruits of them that 
slept." 1 Cor. 15: 20. This is all a beautiful earnest of the 
expected glory of our future inheritance when Jesus shall come 
the second time. " Behold, I tell you a mystery : We all shall 
not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall 
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall 
be changed." 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52; 1 Thess. 4: 13-18. 

In this we have the finale of this type, so beautifully and so 
perfectly woven in with this great body of types. Again these 
two, Caleb and Joshua, stand as witnesses of all the work God 
had done to the people since they had left Egypt until he had 
brought them safely into the promised land, and they testify 
to the fact before all Israel that " Not one thing hath failed 
of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake con- 
cerning you ; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath 
failed thereof." Joshua 23 : 14. 

As these two stand as living witnesses for God, so do Moses 
and Christ stand each for his part of the work, in the great 
divine plan of " Creation, Time and Eternity." Moses as a 
servant in the house, and Christ as a Son over his own house 
which he has inherited. See Heb. 3: 1-6; John 5: 45-47; 12: 
48. 

These are the two witnesses who wrote the words of God, 
or transmitted them to man for God, through the Holy Spirit. 
As Caleb and Joshua were witnesses that God had literally 
fulfilled all he had promised, so will the types fulfilled by 



FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 167 

Christ, at his second coming, testify to us, through the Holy 
Spirit and the Holy Word, " That not one thing is lacking 
of all that God has promised to us since the Creation " down 
to that time. Jesus said that " Heaven and earth shall pass 
away, but my words shall not pass away." Matt. 24: 35. 

JOSHUA AND JESUS CHRIST. 

Perhaps no type is more clear or self-evident than that 
Joshua (or Jesus, which is the same name in the Greek), who 
became Moses' successor, is a true type of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. Moses, himself a type of Christ, for forty years leads 
Israel, with Joshua, a type of the Holy Spirit, as his constant 
helper during all this time. This forty years' service is a type 
of the full dispensation of forty jubilees or 2,000 years, as al- 
ready noted in this work. This led them all up to the brink 
of the Jordan ready to cross over. There they stand ; they 
have come to the end of their journey. There is not a sick 
one, nor a crippled being among them ; their clothes are all 
still of the best. No want nor poverty in their midst ; every one 
eager to pass over. But before them rolls the Jordan, swelled 
to a mighty raging torrent at this season of the year by the 
melting snows of Mt. Hermon, and the early rains. 

Moses has successfully led them to this place with Joshua 
as his helper, as well as all the willing and devoted helpers that 
were among them: but Joshua was his lieutenant. Ex. 17: 
9. He also occupied the honored position of being Moses' 
minister. Ex. 24: 13. This makes him the true type of the 
Holy Spirit. He served Moses in this capacity for forty years, 
or the type of one dispensation ; so did the Holy Spirit serve 
Jesus, or us rather for him from the time he came on the day 
of Pentecost until Jesus comes again. John 14: 16, 17. Again, 
the word of Joshua is the same as Jesus, and means Savior. 
And again, he was Moses' successor at his death, just as Jesus, 
and the work and law of the spirit of life which he gave, 
succeeds that of Moses, and it vanishes. See Heb. 8: 13 ; Rom. 
7: 1-6. 



CHAPTER 18. 

The Forty Years' Wandering in The Wilderness of Sin. 

— Continued. 

Crossing the Jordan — Time of Crossing the Jordan — Diagram No. 
Nine — Order of Events on Entering the Promised Land — 
Diagram No. Ten, of the Special Days and Their Events — 
Types and Antitypes — Conquest of Canaan — Comparative 
Points of Types and Antitypes. 

CROSSING THE JORDAN. — ITS ANTITYPE. 

As the exodus from Egypt of God's chosen people was a 
type of the beginning of the kingdom of heaven, on the day 
of Jesus' crucifixion (see diagrams No. 7 and 8), and the forty 
years' wandering in the Wilderness of Sin a type of the full 
period of time of the Christian Dispensation, even so is the 
crossing of Jordan a true type of the second coming of Christ. 

Here is a marvelous key to help us to understand the cycles 
of time, with many other mysterious things. Let us follow 
up with great care, and not with idle or curious haste, and 
thus defeat an intelligent understanding of our Father's great 
plan in his work of " Creation, Time and Eternity." 

TIME OF CROSSING THE JORDAN. 

It was just forty years to the very day from the time the 
lamb was taken up in Egypt, on the tenth day of the month 
Abib (see Ex. 12: 3; 13: 4, and Deut. 1 : 3, with Joshua 4: 19), 
to the time Joshua and his host crossed the Jordan through its 
dried-up bed, into the promised land. These dates are named 
in the scriptures cited above. As already shown in a previous 
chapter, this is the very same day that Jesus entered Jerusalem 
in triumph. In diagrams 7 and 8, the crossing of Jordan was 

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purposely omitted until we arrived at that point; below we 
give it with its antitype. 

Diagram showing the types and antitypes of the paschal lamb 
and crossing of the Jordan by Israel on the tenth day of the 
month Abib. 

Diagram No. 9. 



FIRST TYPE. 

Began in Egypt. 

10th day 1st Month. 



SECOND TYPE. 

Finished in promised land. 

10th day of first Month. 



On the tenth day of the 
month of Abib, the first month 
of the year to the Jews under 
the Mosaic law, the passover 
lamb was always taken up. See 
Ex. 12: 1-3; 13: 4. 

10th day of first Month. 



Just 40 years later on this same 
day the 10th of Abib, Israel en- 
ters the promised land through 
the dried-up bed of the river 
Jordan. See Joshua 4: 19; com- 
pare with Deut. 1: 3; 34: 8. 
10th day of first Month. 



FIRST ANTITYPE. 

Jesus, on the tenth day of this 
same month, came to Jerusalem 
to remain until his crucifixion, 
the same day the lambs were 
taken up to be kept until the 
14th, when they were killed, and 
he was crucified. John 12: 1, 12. 
Type and its true meaning met. 



SECOND ANTITYPE. 
As 40 is a type of a full dis- 
pensation of 40 jubilees, and as 
this type has so far been fully 
carried out, may we not certainly 
expect Jesus to come again when 
the time is fully come, just as Is- 
rael entered the promised land up- 
on the exact year, month and day? 
And as Jesus came to Jerusalem 
in the exact year, month and 
day, the first time? 



The crossing of Jordan took place at the time of the first 
ripe harvest in the promised land. See Joshua 3: 15. The 
second coming of Christ will be the first harvest time of this 
world. We quote the Lord's own words : " Then shall appear 
the sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all the 
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man 
coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 
And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a 
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24: 30, 
31. "The harvest is the end of the age: the reapers are the 
angels." Matt. 13: 39. This makes the type and antitype 
certainly perfectly clear. 



FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 171 

On this type of the harvest time, we notice further that they 
also kept the passover on the 14th, after they crossed over, 
and on the morrow after the high sabbath, which was the 
16th day of Abib, the morning on which the wave sheaf was 
offered. See Lev. 23. The manna with which they had been 
miraculously fed for forty years, ceased : and from that day 
forth they ate of the fruit of the land. Truly a perfect type 
of the Christian's hope as promised by the Master himself. 
' Thev shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more." Rev. 
7: 16. 

Diagram No. 10. 

Let us follow the order of events as they occur from the first 
on up to the antitype. 

1. The 10th day. 

1. Lamb taken up in Egypt on the tenth day of Abib. — 1492 
B. C. 

2. Israel crosses Jordan on*the tenth day of Abib. — 1452 B. C. 

3. Jesus enter Jerusalem to die on tenth day of Abib. — 30 
A. D. 

4. Prefigures the second coming of Christ, at the close of 
this Age. 

Note. — For a still fuller exposition of this type, and its final 
complete meaning, see and compare this with the chapter and 
diagrams on the full cycles of time, farther on in this book. 
Author. 

2. The 14th day. 

1. Lamb was killed in Egypt on the 14th of Abib, and eaten 
that night. 

2. The same again on entering the promised land. See Joshua 
5: 10. 

3. Tesus was crucified on this same 14th day of Abib. John 
19: 31, 41. 

4. As the first-bora of Israel's enemies perished in Egypt on 
this day, so will Jesus come: "Rendering vengeance to them 
that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our 
Lord Jesus Christ . . . when he shall come to be glorified in 
his saints." 2 Thess. 1: 7-10. 

(a) So were the Egyptians destroyed, when Israel left Egypt. 

(b) So were the seven Nations in the promised land destroyed 
under Joshua, when Israel entered in. See Joshua 11 and 12. 



172 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

(c) And so were the Jews destroyed 40 years after they 
crucified Jesus, and asked that has blood might be upon them. 
Matt. 27: 25. 

(d) So will Jesus do with his enemies again ait the close of 
this age. 

(e) At the final judgment, Rev. 20: 7-15, is the completion of 
this type. 

3. The 15th day. 

1. Israel leaves Egypt for his journey in the Wilderness of 
Sin, on to the promised land, om the 15th day of Abib, which was 
ever after the high sabbath, and governed every sabbath follow- 
ing it. See Ex. 12: 29-37, comp. with Lev. 23: 15-16; Deut. 15: 9-12. 

2. Israel's first sabbath day in the Holy Land. The manna 
with which they have been fed for forty years, ceases on this day. 

3. Jesus lies in the tomb all this day, thus signifying that 
" IT IS FINISHED." John 19: 30. The type has met its antitype 
and is fulfilled. See Matt. 5: 17-18; Col. 2: 10, 14-17. 

4. This beautiful type was clearly foreseen by the writer of 
Hebrews. 

(a) That God " had finished his work from the foundation 
of the world." Heb. 4: 3. That is, it was foreordained, planned 
and allotted; and he rested from it all, turned it over to man. 
See Gen. 1: 26-28; 2: 2-3. 

(b) When Jesus came, he did the same, and could say in 
triumph, " I have glorified thee on earth, I have finished the work 
thou gavest me to do." Joihn 17: 4. Then he entered into his 
rest. Acts 1: 9-10, 

(c) The writer of Hebrews assures us that the temporal 
rest which Israel obtained in the promised land was not what God 
had in view for his people. " For if Joshua had given them rest, 
he would not 'have spoken afterwards of another day. There 
remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. For he 
that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his 
works, ais God did from his." Heb. 4: 8-11. We will find the 
fulfilled type in Jesus' promise to 'his own. See John 14: 1-3 and 
Rev. 7: 14-17, with its finale, Rev. 21 and 22. 

4. The 16th day of Abib. 

1. Israel crosses the Red Sea early on the morning of the 
16th; the Egyptians pursue them and are all drowned. Ex. 14: 
21-27. 

2. Wave sheaf offered on this day after they entered the 
promised land. " When ye are come into the land which I give 
unto you, and shall reap the 'harvest thereof, then ye shall bring 
the sheaf of the first-fruit of your harvest unto the priest: and 
he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you: 
on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And 
ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears until 
this selfsame day." Lev. 23: 9-14. 



FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 173 

3. The 16th is the first day of the week, on which Jesus rose 
from the dead. "The first fruits of them, that slept." John 20: 1, 
14; 1 Gor. 15: 20. 

4. That this points us clearly to the reaping time of the first- 
fruits, when Jesus shall come again, the above types point out very 
clearly. These are the sealed ones of Rev. 7: 4; 14: 1-5. See 
4th verse. ' These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever 
he sroeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the 
FIRST-FRUITS unto God and the Lamb." 

5. This type also points us on up to the full harvest of Rev. 
21. It will be noticed that as soon as the wave-sheaf was offered 
they could use the grain. For the full harvest type, see a later 
chapter in this work. 

5. 50th day, or Pentecost. 

1. The first Pentecost, or 50th day after the crossing of the 
Red Sea we have the law read and the covenant sealed at Mt. 
Sinai. Ex. 19: 1; 24: 3-8. 

2. Again on the 50th day (Pentecost), when they had entered 
the promised land, the law is read and an altar erected at Mount 
Ebal, and Gerizim, and the covenant is reestablished with the 
twelve tribes. Deut. 11: 26-32; Joshua 8: 30-35. 

(Note. — The date of this is not definitely stated, but was ob- 
served in the same order of events as the first passover and Pente- 
cost, which see. It also thus fully establishes the complete set of 
types; the other dates being given.) 

3. Pentecost A. D. 30. The Holy Spirit given, on the 50th 
day after the resurrectio'n of Jesus Christ. Acts 2: 1-3. 

Note. — For the comipletion of this type, see " Cycles of Crea- 
tion, Time and Eternity." 

CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 

Without going into detail, we wish to note some of the 
salient points of contact between the type of the conquest of 
Canaan and its antitype. 

That the entry into Canaan of the chosen people of God 
in a solid body and in a miraculous manner through the floods 
of Jordan, led by Joshua, is a true type of the second coming 
of Christ, is exceedingly clear in the light of its self-explana- 
tory antitype, as given by Jesus himself. That Israel entered 
the promised land with the avowed intention of destroying 
the enemies of God we know. See Joshua 1 : 3-5. Jesus will 
come for the very same purpose. See 2 Thess. 1 : 7-10. 



174 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

We notice briefly the following points of contact between 
type and antitype: 

1. A full period of time, namely forty years, had just come 
to a close. Antitype, one full dispensation, of forty jubilees. 

2. All the types of the passover, .etc., that took place in 
Egypt were again reenacted at the occupation of Israel of the 
promised land, and at the crucifixion of Jesus. The first was 
literally fulfilled, so will the last be at his second coming, 
beyond a doubt. 

3. The old all died in the Wilderness of Sin, the new gen- 
eration only entered the promised land. Antitype, our natural 
bodies, the carnal man, can not enter the kingdom of heaven, 
or inherit the earth, but the new man in Christ Jesus. 

4. Moses, who was the type of Christ for these forty years, 
dies for the sins of the people, outside of the promised land. 
So did Jesus, his real antitype. 

5. Joshua, who was the type of the Holy Spirit for these 
forty years with Moses and the people, now becomes the type 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, to lead the host of Israel triumphantly 
through the dried-up bed of the floods of Jordan, and on to 
the complete conquest of the promised land. 

6. It was flood time when they entered ; so will Jesus Christ 
come, like a mighty flood, to destroy all the wicked. 

7. It was the time of the first harvest: — Jesus will gather 
his first harvest when he comes to reign over this world. 

8. They all reconfirmed the covenant when they entered 
the promised land, by circumcision, reading of the law, and by 
ofTerings. So will Jesus do with all when he comes again. 
" The law shall go forth out of Zion." 

9. The Seven days, Seven trumpets, Seven priests, and Sev- 
en blasts on the seventh day at the fall of Jericho, all are the 
number of perfection, and stand for a complete victory over 



FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 175 

the enemies of God and his children, — (1) through his power; 
(2) through their complete obedience to his commands. 

10. Achan, who stole the gold and the garments, stands as 
a type of the result of sin and disobedience, and what it will 
result in during the reign of Christ. 

11. The Seven nations (Deut. 7: 1), the perfect number; 
they were to conquer and to dispossess. They stand as a 
type of the whole world to be completely conquered by Christ. 

12. The sun and moon standing still at the command of 
Joshua. Antitype — The sun and moon shall be turned to blood 
at his second coming. 

13. Finally the twelve tribes take possession of their several 
allotments. Antitype — They will again at Jesus' second com- 
ing. Ezek. 39: 25-29; 47: 13. 

No type can do more than give a picture of the substance, 
or real, which is to follow it in the fullness of time. Neither 
can it do more than point out a part in miniature of the full- 
ness of the real. No attempt has been made by the author 
of this work to give the details of these wonderful types and 
their antitypes, only to point out in a clear, logical manner 
their great points of contact. If the reader will follow up with 
patient care, and with heart and mind in unison with his great 
Head, who himself is the Author of it all, he will attain to 
such a knowledge of the Book of books, that no power will 
ever be able to move him again from the realities of the 
truth of the Word of God. " Heaven and earth shall pass 
away but my words shall never pass away." Matt. 24: 35. 
What we see and behold now is not the real, only the temporal. 
" While we look not at the things which are seen but at the 
things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are 
temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 
Cor. 4: 18. Like a mighty mirage, out of the mist of the past 
ages, God is unfolding to us his great plan of " Creation, 
Time and Eternity." 



176 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

The main idea of God in his BOOK has been so to reveal 
himself to man, as to enable man at least to grasp him by faith. 
Every record throughout the whole book has been to show 
man that he was doomed to failure from every standpoint 
without his God. And every chapter has its wonderful lessons 
written out as a testimony for all future ages. 

" Here is the mind that hath wisdom." 



CHAPTER 19. 

Period of Time From the Conquest of Canaan to the 

Close of the Age of Types. 
Age of the Judges — Type of Forty Again — The Kingdom of Saul, 
David and Solomon — Forty Years Each — David's Forty Years 
— Solomon — The Temple — Its Typical Meaning — The Law and 
the Prophets. 

THE AGE OF THE JUDGES. 

Beginning with the exodus from Egypt, which took place 
about 1495 B. C, to the coronation of Saul, 1095, we have a 
period of 400 years of what is usually known as the rule of 
the judges. This began with Moses and closed with Samuel. 
It is foreign to the purpose of this work to give a historical 
account of Israel, except to show some of the outline works 
of God in the types as they are interwoven with it. We have 
already noticed the type of the figure forty in a previous 
chapter ; we have it before us again so prominently and re- 
peatedly in the rule of the judges, that we will give it some 
further notice in connection with them. 

In a previous chapter we also noticed the type of the forty 
days' rain, etc., of Noah and the Ark; also of the forty days' 
fast of Moses, Elijah and Jesus, upon the same mountain, 
with the forty days' resurrection of Jesus. Each of these 
stands as a type of a full period of time, or rather of the dedi- 
cation of each of them and their work to a full dispensation 
of time ; or, to the dispensation of time that each one repre- 
sents and the particular line of work which they were com- 
missioned to do. In the type before us we will notice the 
forty years, and its final meaning. Below we give a partial 
list of the use made of forty years during the period of the 
judges and the kings of Israel. 

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178 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

A Judge 

1. Moses was forty years old when he was exiled 
from Egypt. He was forty years with Jethro in 
Midian; and forty years in leading Israel from 

Egypt to the promised land 40 years 

2. Joshua was with Moses in the wilderness forty 
years. A judge in the promised land. Ex. 33 : 

1 1 ; Judges 2 : 7 40 years 

3. Israel judged by the Elders one generation long- 
er. Judges 2 : 7-10 40 years 

4. Othniel judges Israel. Judges 3 : 11 40 years 

5. Ehud judges Israel twice forty years. Judges 3 : 

26-30 80 years 

6 

7. Barak and Deborah judge Israel. Judges 4: 23; 

5: 31 40 years 

8. Gideon judges Israel. Judges 8: 24 40 years 

9. Eli judges Israel. 1 Sam. 4: 18 40 years 

10. Samuel judges Israel. (Not definitely stated, but 

fills the date.) m 40 years 

400 years 
It will be seen that this period resolves itself into a series 
of ten forties, and is followed by three more forty years, 
under the reign of Saul, David and Solomon. The statement 
of the Apostle Paul in Acts 13 : 19 is indefinite and was used 
in an introductory speech ; we do not consider it to be con- 
tradictory to the above statement of assigning just four hun- 
dred years to the judges. This is reckoned from the best 
Bible record. See 1 Kings 6: 1. There were also many 
minor judges who ruled cotemporaneously with these judges; 
also the periods of oppression of their enemies lap into all 
these periods. Yet each period represents a full period of 
time, forty jubilees of fifty years each. As will be more 
definitely noted in the Cycles of time, this is the fulness of 
time under the types and shadows of the law. 



CONQUEST OF CANAAN 179 

SAUL, DAVID AND SOLOMON. 

God through Moses had already made provisions for a king 
to be chosen over Israel sometime in the future. Deut. 17: 
14-20. He also promises to choose him who was to be their 
king, and they were to submit it to him. He also gives im- 
plicit instruction as to how that king should do the govern- 
ing over his people. All this has its antitype also, and was 
literally fulfilled in Christ Jesus, but never fully in the human 
king. Moses said, " A prophet shall the Lord thy God raise 
up from the midst of thee like unto me." Deut. 18: 15-19. 
Peter said this was Christ. Acts 3: 22-24. Again God had 
sworn to David, saying, " When thy days are fulfilled, and 
thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after 
thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will estab- 
lish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and 
I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. . . . And 
thy house and thy kindom shall be made sure forever before 
thee : thy throne shall be established forever." 2 Sam. 7 : 
12-16. On the day of Pentecost Peter, in the first great ser- 
mon preached under the power of the influence of the Holy 
Spirit, says this meant the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 2: 29-33. 
The angel Gabriel told Mary before the birth of Jesus that 
" He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most 
High : and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of 
his father David : and he shall reign over the house of Jacob 
for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Luke 
1: 26-33. 

These scriptures clearly point us from the type to the anti- 
type : from the temporal to the eternal, and furnish us with a 
clear basis on which to build. 

In many places and ways God has in his BOOK of books 
handed us the key of its inspiration and told us to step in 
and possess its rich treasures of divine truth ; but like the 
Jews of old we are so slow to learn. 



180 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

We will notice these three kings as the three great proto- 
types of the three great dispensations. We have already 
noticed that each of them reigned just forty years. See Acts 
13 : 21 ; 1 Kings 2 : 10; 1 Kings 11 : 42. 

We have the giant King Saul as the type of the first dis- 
pensation from Adam to the flood; and like Adam, he has 
hardly started on his career as a king (for Adam was a king, 
as God committed all into his hands) until he disobeys God 
and falls. Saul, like Adam, is driven from his throne and is 
told another should take his place. " Jehovah has sought him 
a man after his own heart, and Jehovah hath appointed him 
to be a prince over his people, because thou hast not kept that 
which Jehovah commanded thee." 1 Sam. 13 : 14. Jesus 
Christ was promised in the first fall ; he, through King David, 
his type, is promised again here instead of the king who fell 
by transgression. 

The enemy conquered King Saul and killed him, so did it 
Adam and the race of antediluvians with him. King Saul's 
sins destroyed him and his fmily; so did Adam's sins de- 
stroy him and his family. David alone, under the reign of 
King Saul, began the work of redeeming the kingdom, just 
as Noah (who is also a type of Christ) began the work of 
redemption before the flood by his obedience to God, in 
building an ark, to the saving of his house and the condemna- 
tion of the faithless sons of Adam. Heb. 11: 7. Saul was a 
giant, so were the antediluvians. See chapter on the Evolu- 
tion of Man. King Saul reigned forty years, the type of the 
full two thousand years, or forty jubilees, from Adam to 
Abraham. Ajs already noted, the type after Noah comes 
through Abraham, whence we have the beginning of a com- 
plete new set of types down to the close of Solomon's reign. 
Let the student of typology not lose sight of this great 
divine plan of the ages, and all will be clear to him. 
In the beginning of this age of types we have Abraham, 



CONQUEST OF CANAAN 181 

Isaac and Jacob, as the type of the Father, Son and Holy 
Spirit, and the twelve sons of Jacob as the type of the twelve 
Apostles of the Lamb. We have followed them through in 
their various types until we have seen them delivered from 
Egyptian bondage, which is a type of Jesus' first advent, 
to lead out his church ; then through a full forty years we 
see them wandering in the Wilderness of Sin, a true type of 
the full church period from the resurrection of Christ to his 
second advent, which is so beautifully prefigured by the en- 
trance into Canaan of Israel under Joshua through the dried- 
up bed of Jordan. We have seen the invincible powers of 
Israel, — that nothing could stand before them as long as 
they fully obeyed God. Sin was the only thing that defeated 
them, but the great plan of God went on just the same. That 
God has failed at any point in carrying out his preconceived 
plan is wholly inconceivable in the light of what we have 
seen. All types fail, must fail, because they are only types 
or shadows of things to come, " But the body is of Christ," 
and it can never fail. " Heaven and earth shall pass away 
but my words shall never pass away," is the fiat of Jesus Christ 
himself, who could well say, " All power is given unto me in 
heaven and earth." Matt. 28 : 18. 

We have seen the failure of King Saul, and what its type; 
let us now look at 



THE FORTY YEARS REIGN OF DAVID. 

The forty years' reign of King David represents the 
second dispensation, from the call of Abraham, " The Friend 
of God," to the birth of Jesus Christ the Son of God, and 
also the son of Abraham and David. Let us briefly notice 
a few of the many points of contact of the type and antitypes 
of this period. 



182 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Diagram No. 11. 

Type. — *David is a man after God's own heart, and especially 
chosen by him and anointed by his instruction to succeed the house 
of King Saul. 

Antitype. — Jesus is chosen and anointed to succeed the old 
Jewish church and fulfill all its types and shadows. 

Type. — David is trained and schooled under the hard hand of 
King Saul. Saul used every effort to slay him without a cause, 
but failed. 

Antitype. — Jesus was tried likewise under the rule of the law 
teachers. They tried their best to slay him, and also without a 
cause; they likewise failed of their object to crush him, or his 
cause. The Kingdom of David and his Son Jesus, still lives. 

Type. — David's fir sit victory was over the giant Goliath, a 
true type of the dark ages of giants, of the antediluvian world, 
of whom King Saul was also a type and had to be conquered, and 
overcome: not by David, it is true, but by the God in whom David 
trusted. 

Antitype. — Jesus' first victory was also over the giant of the 
dark ages of the antediluvian world, Satan, who deceived and slew 
them. He put Satan to silence by his complete obedience to God. 
Matt. 4: 1-11. Jesus' second victory, like David's, was won over 
the rulers of the land, and tried him to the utmosit for a season, 
slaying his body; but he "Triumphed over them in it." Col. 2: 
14-15. 

Type. — David conquered all his enemies on every side and 
ruled over all the land that had been promised to Israel. See 
Gen. 15: 18; 1 Kings 4: 21. 

Antitype. — The promise to Abraham is that "In thy seed 
[meaning Christ] shall all the families of the earth be blessed." 
Gal. 3: 16. And again the promise is for Christ that "Thy seed 
shall possess the gate of his enemy." Gen. 22: 17. The assurance 
of the fulfillment of this promise is given us often in the New 
Testament. " For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies 
under his feet." 1 Cor. 15: 25. 

Type. — David was not allowed to build a house for God, but 
he got much material ready to build. 1 Chron. 21: 28-30; 22: 1-19. 

Antitype. — Jesus did not build any earthly temple, but in and 
through his church he is getting ready to build the most mag- 
nificent temple that ever stood on earth, when he comes again. 
John 14: 1-3; Ezek. 40: 40-42. 

*Note. — David was a man after God's own heart, not because 
he did not err, but because God could use him and always correct 
him. The Holy Spirit found in him a ready response to his call 
to repentance. See Psalm 51. King- Saul had a hard, stubborn will 
which never was conquered by the Holy Spirit, and each sin left him 
farther from God and true repentance. See 1 Sam. 13: 13-14; 15: 
22-23; 18: 6-15. 



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Type. — David's house, throne and kingdom were to endure 
forever. 

Antitype. — This only points to Christ, and his kingdom. 

God gave all the plans of the temple and its service to David, 
and he gave them to Solomon, just as God gave his plans to Jesus, 
and he to us through the Holy Spirit. John 12: 44-50; 16: 13-14; 
14: 25-26. God chose Solomon as David's successor, and the Holy 
Spirit as Jesus' Successor. 

These are a few of the many points of contact in this great 
prototype of our Lord and his special work on earth in the 
greatest of all earth's great epochs. 

SOLOMON AND THE TEMPLE. TYPES AND ANTITYPES. 

King David represented the second dispensation, and its 
bloody victories ; even so King Solomon is a true type of the 
finished product of the Kingdom of heaven. Daniel gives us a 
graphic picture of the completion of this, one of the greatest 
types of the Bible. " And in the days of those kings shall the 
God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be de- 
stroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another 
people ; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these king- 
doms, and it shall stand forever." Dan. 2 : 44. While David 
represents the earthly side of the terrible conflict of Jesus' 
church, Solomon represents the perfect tranquillity of the 
peaceful spiritual side of the Church Triumphant. God said to 
David : " Thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because 
thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. Be- 
hold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest 
and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about ; for 
his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness 
unto Israel in his days. He shall build a house for my name ; 
and he shall be my son, and I will be his Father ; and I will 
establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for EVER." 
1 Chron. 22: 8-10. 

This type is most beautiful, and easy to comprehend, when 
we have Solomon as the earthly, or typical side, and the Lord 
Jesus Christ as " Heir of all things " (Heb. 1:2), and as the 



184 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Son of David, who was to sit on his throne. Luke 1 : 32, 33. 
The word " forever " can not be applied to a temporal thing 
except through its antitype, the eternal. Solomon means 
peaceful; this is the true character of all of Jesus' subjects. 
Solomon's full reign of forty years was one of undisturbed 
peace. No wars harassed or disturbed it. All the surround- 
ing nations paid tribute to him, and came to do him homage. 
Jesus said of the Queen of Sheba that " She had come from 
the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solo- 
mon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here." Matt. 
12 : 42. All nations will " become the kingdom of our Lord 
and his Christ (Rev. 11: 15), and he shall reign forever and 
ever." Here we again meet with type and antitype. 

Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived, and had unlim- 
ited power and wealth, a true type of the real in Jesus Christ. 
Solomon's was all of a temporal character and soon vanished 
away in the hands of his successors, while Jesus' was eternal, 
and all his wisdom was from above. James 3 : 17. Solomon 
was rich, but his riches soon faded. Jesus came to give us the 
true riches. Solomon built a temple to the Lord his God ; 
so is Jesus building one, " As a son over his own house." 
Solomon's temple was largely built by foreigners. See 1 
Chron. 22: 2; 2 Chron. 2: 1-18. Jesus' kingdom will also 
be largely composed of all kindreds, tribes and tongues, and 
these are even now getting ready the material in a foreign 
land to bring to Jerusalem to build the temple of God when 
Jesus comes again. " And it shall come to pass in the latter 
days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established 
on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the 
hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it." Isa. 2 : 2. 

Again, we notice the beautiful type of the building of Sol- 
omon's temple. " And the house when it was in building, was 
built of stone made ready at the quarry ; and there was neither 
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, 
while it was in building." 1 Kings 6: 7. 



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Antitype. — " And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com- 
ing down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride 
adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of 
the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, 
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Rev. 
21: 1-3. 

The temple of Solomon was all finished with pure gold in- 
side. 

Antitype. — " And the city was pure gold, like unto pure 
glass." Rev. 21 : 18. 

Seven golden candlesticks were ordered of God for the 
tabernacle in the beginning. See Ex. 37: 17-24. There were 
seven lamps on one stand, which were duplicated ten times 
in the much enlarged temple of Solomon's. See 2 Chron. 4 : 7. 

Antitype. — " And there were seven lamps of fire burning be- 
fore the throne, which are the seven spirits of God." Rev. 
4: 5. 

We might thus specify in detail the types and antitypes 
of the temple, but it is needless to do so, as enough has been 
shown fully to carry out the idea of God's great plan of re- 
vealing to us his purpose. The temple was all fully equipped 
throughout with the utmost care and perfection in every par- 
ticular, all after God's own direction. Its courses were all 
prescribed, its services specified, its singers all appointed, all 
its sacrifices set in order, its feast days, sabbaths, new moons 
and solemn assemblies. We give the following quotation, 
which will clearly set forth the fulness of this type as already 
noted : " Now in the things which we are saying the chief 
point is this : We have such a high priest, who sat down on 
the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 
a minister of the sanctuary, and the true tabernacle, which 
the Lord pitched, not man. For every high priest is appointed 
to offer both gifts and sacrifices : wherefore it is necessary that 
this high priest also have somewhat to offer. Now if he were 



186 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those 
who offer the gifts according to the law; WHO SERVE 
THAT WHICH IS A COPY AND SHADOW OF THE 
HEAVENLY THINGS, even as Moses is warned of God 
when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, 
that thou make all things according to the pattern showed thee 
in the mount." Heb. 8: 1-5. 

We have now looked at this copy in comparison with its 
real, in a meager way indeed, but enough to show us the 
beautiful harmony of the WORD of God, which indeed is 
" alive and all powerful," an everlasting TRUTH. 

Truly, the " Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard 
seed"; it roots down and grows up, spreads abroad with an 
irresistible power; scatters its seeds until it fills the universe 
with its ever-accumulating living germs of righteousness. 

THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 

With the close of the reign of Solomon also closes the golden 
age of the kingdom of Israel, and it rapidly sinks into decay. 
For forty years the land had peace and quiet, and " Every 
man sat under his own vine and fig tree." 

This completes the " Age of Types," and from henceforth 
we have the " Age of the Prophets." As Moses stands at 
the head of the law, so does Elijah stand at the head of the 
great school of prophets. 2 Kings 2: 1-18. Elijah comes up- 
on the scene of action immediately following the death of King 
Solomon, and his mantle fell on Elisha at the time of his 
translation to heaven in a chariot of fire. Elisha's death oc- 
curs about 838 B. C, and he is succeeded by the prophet 
Isaiah, the great evangelical prophet, whose writing is indeed 
a marvel of inspiration, and who has ever been regarded 
as the greatest Messianic prophet. He has written out almost 
every conceivable trait of Jesus, with his death and suffering, 
in a style all his own ; which for depth and beauty has never 
been equaled by any other writer. See Isa. 52: 7-15; 53: 



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1-12. He has covered the world with his prophecies from his 
time to the final triumph of the kingdom of heaven. Isa. 1 : 
1-4; compare 2: 1-4, and 65: 17-25. 

Isaiah is followed by Jeremiah, the weeping prophet ; it 
was at the close of his life, or near it, that Jerusalem fell and 
was carried into captivity. 

Many other prophets appeared upon the scene of action all 
along the history of Israel, until within about four hundred 
years of the birth of Christ. 

Among the most notable of these is Daniel. His prophecies 
are exceedingly rich and deep, and abound in many symbols 
and figures of the nations of the ages from his time to the 
ultimate and complete triumph of the kingdom of heaven. 
See Dan. 2 : 37-45 ; 7 : 1-27. 

Ezekiel is another of the great prophets writing during the 
seventy years' captivity of Israel. He, too, after recounting 
the doom of many nations, and rehearsing the fearful fall of 
his people, looks down the vista of the ages to come and sees 
the glorious triumph of the kingdom of Christ and the final 
and complete overthrow of the enemies of the church of 
Christ. Ezek. 37 : 1 to 39 : 22. He also sees the final restora- 
tion of his people to their full inheritance, and Christ himself 
reigning over them. See Ezek. 37 : 20-28. 

Others of the prophets and their works are of equal interest 
and importance, but this will suffice to show what is meant 
by our Lord when he quoted "the law and the prophets" as 
the highest authority at his command (Matt. 7: 12; 22: 40), 
and then with the fullest assurance of one conscious of his 
authority, says, " The law and the prophets were until John : 
since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every 
man presses into it." Luke 16: 16. The types and shadows 
have largely passed away; the true light now shines brightly. 
May we walk in that light. 



CHAPTER 20. 

Cycles of Time in Creation, Time and Eternity. Seven, 
the Perfect Number. 

A Day in Prophecy — Seven the Unit of Time — The Beginning of 

Time With Israel — Type of the Unleavened Bread — Diagram 

No. Twelve, of the Unit of Time — Diagram No. Thirteen — 

The Seven Weeks — Pentecost the First Day. 

Cycle. — A round of years, or period of time in which the same 

course of events begins again: a periodical space of time; as, the 

cycle of the seasons, or the cycle of the moon's eclipses, a period 

of eighteen years eleven days, etc. 

Every Bible student has become familiar with the oft-re- 
peated uses of the figure seven found everywhere within its 
pages. In the very beginning we find the creative period di- 
vided into seven periods of time. At the time of the flood we 
find its free use again in the repeated seven days' waiting. 
Gen. 8 : 10-12. The seven clean beasts taken into the ark. 
Gen. 7: 2. Again, after the crossing of the Jordan we have 
Israel commanded to compass Jericho with seven prie-sts and 
seven horns, for seven days ; and on the seventh day they were 
to compass it about seven times. This stands as a memorial 
type of the absolute victory of God's people over their enemies 
by faith. Heb. 11: 30. They conquered seven nations in the 
promised land, greater and stronger than they were. Deut. 7: 
1. 

Thus we find this figure seven so prominently held up until 
the last book of the Bible, Revelation, where it abounds 
throughout in prophetic figures, symbols and cycles of time. 
The fact that the Jews were commanded to keep the seventh 
day as a sabbath, and labor the other six days, and that God 
had finished all his work in six days and rested on the seventh, 
carries with it the weight and sanction of a divine type and 

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190 CREATION. TIME AND ETERNITY. 

shadow, just the same as all like figures, types and shadows 
do elsewhere in his laws which he gave to Israel. 

While the cycle of a year is made and governed by the* 
solar period, and the month by the lunar, seven is strictly ar- 
bitrary. It is the divine number chosen for a strictly sacred 
purpose ; it represents the perfection of God ; it is the -Divine 
key that unlocks the mysteries of " Creation, Time and Eter- 
nity." Jesus Christ, the mighty Maker, first used it himself 
in the division of time, long ere the sun or the moon took any 
part in the establishing of what we know now as a day or 
a month, or a year of time ; for these were first used for the 
dividing of time as we now have it, upon the fourth creative 
day. The writer of Hebrews uses this in its true sense when 
he applies it to the final rest of the Christians after this life 
of service is over. Heb. 4. 

We find that seven is always the unit of time used in all the 
appointed set feasts of Jehovah. The days and weeks and 
months and years, in all their feasts, and division of cycles of 
time, resolved themselves into sevens, or seven times seven; 
while in prophecy the word day often stands for a year. See 
Daniel 8: 14; 12: 11, 12. The same use is made again of the 
word day, in Rev. 11:3, while in the previous verse the word 
month is used to denote 1,260 years, or the same as is stated in 
days, in verse 3, which also means the same period of time. 
The same is stated again in Rev. 12: 6; 13: 5. 

Again, in Dan. 9 : 24-27 we have a plain prophecy of the 
time, from the decree by Cyrus to rebuild the temple at Jeru- 
salem to the destruction of Jerusalem. See also Jesus' own 
interpretation of this scripture in Matt. 24: 15. In this we 
have the term weeks used. Now by multiplying the 70 weeks 
by seven, the number of days contained is found in them. 
And again, to find the time from the decree to build the tem- 
ple by Cyrus the king of Persia to the time of the destruction 
of Jerusalem by the Romans, we simply take a day for a year, 



CYCLES OF TIME 191 

and barring mistakes of the date from which we reckon, we 
have the precise time of Daniel's prophecy. 

Peter adds his testimony on the use the Lord makes of the 
term day. He is writing about the second coming of Christ 
and the final judgment of the world, when he says: " But be- 
loved, forget not this one thing, that one day is with the Lord 
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 2 
Peter 3 : 8. 

Here then are some of the prophetical uses made in the 
Bible of days, months, weeks and years. 

When we turn to the types and shadows on the cycles of 
time, we need not change the terms used by the sacred writers, 
but " Rightly divide the word of truth," and prove them by 
it. We believe that with what has already been clearly shown 
in these pages, the unbiased student will find it of vital interest 
to a clear and full understanding of the preconceived plan of 
our Lord, to give the accompanying diagrams a most careful 
study, with his Bible as the real textbook by his side. 

SEVEN THE UNIT OF TIME. 

It will be seen that the number seven may be considered not 
only the full, sacred number of the Bible, the perfect number, 
but that it is the unit number of the cycles of all time, as 
it was given by the Creator himself. In the law we find the 
seven days specifically named in the very first of the work, 
as Israel proceeds out of the house of Egyptian bondage. 
" Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread ; even the first day 
ye shall put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever 
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, 
that soul shall be cut ofT from Israel." Ex. 12: 15. This law 
was given while they were yet in Egypt, and just before the 
exodus. This law, with the law of the passover, is the first 
law given to Israel, and is a type of the fullness of time, and is 
the standard, or unit of all time. 

It also records the date of the beginning of time for the 
types and antitypes, as any one will plainly see by consult- 



192 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

ing the previous charts already given of the paschal lamb, 
in this work. See also Ex. 12 : 2 ; 13 : 4. 

To show the great stress God put upon this law and its 
importance in his own estimation, we quote from it again : 
" In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at 
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twen- 
tieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no 
leaven found in your houses : for whosoever eateth that which 
is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of 
Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the 
land." Ex. 12: 18, 19. It was to be observed forever. V. 17. 
Forever could not be said of that which was to pass away, 
but when we see a type fulfilled and perpetuated by that which 
it is only a figure and copy of, we can easily understand its 
full import. 

The reason assigned for them to keep this feast, and begin- 
ning on that particular day, was because he had brought them 
out of Egypt on that day. In none of these types is there any 
other reason assigned, and it is exceedingly doubtful that they 
ever had the remotest idea of the marvelous living drama 
God was working out through them ; neither would it have 
been prudent for them to know it, because God's honor and 
glory in the ages to come demanded it. We can now look 
back and see the marvelous works of God, though yet through 
a glass darkly, but some day we, too, shall have the veil fully 
lifted. 

TYPE OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD: 

For seven days they were to eat nothing else but the unleav- 
ened bread. This designates to them, (1) that they were to 
leave all of old Egypt behind with its leavening powers for evil. 
Jesus said to his disciples, " Beware of the leaven of the 
scribes and Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." It points us con- 
tinually forward forever to the next period just before us, and 
like as it did the Israelites, bids us leave the old leaven of the 



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193 



TYPE NUMBER ONE OF THE CYCLES OF TIME. DIAGRAM OF 
THE STANDARD OF TIME. 



Diagram No. 12. 



The Seven Days, or 



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fading old dispensation behind us. On the day of Pentecost 
in their new meat offering, they were to use leaven to make 
their bread. See Lev. 23 : 17. This was indeed a beautiful 
type of the Holy Spirit given on that day. Acts 2: 1-4. 

Beginning at sundown of the evening of the 14th day of 



194 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

the month Abib to sundown of the evening of the 21st day, 
was the week of unleavened bread. This 14th day always 
came on or near the vernal equinox, being governed by it and 
the nearest full moon, either preceding or following it (See 
previous chapter on this.) 

This week, the first week of the spring season, is the stand- 
ard unit of time. 

The day is a type of the week, month and year, and also 
of any full cycle of time. See previous explanation, with 
the scripture reference. 

In diagram No. 13 we have the cycle of seven weeks' 
time. The seven days are multiplied seven times and complete 
the cycle at forty-nine. This seven times seven days was al- 
ways counted from the first day of the week ; and not only so, 
but from the first day of the standard week of time, the feast 
of unleavened bread. " And ye shall count unto you from the 
morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the 
sheaf of the wave-offering ; seven sabbaths shall there be com- 
plete : even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall 
ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering 
unto Jehovah." Lev. 23: 15, 16. As clearly shown in a 
previous chapter, this type of the wave sheaf was fulfilled 
by Jesus' resurrection on the very same day, and the fiftieth 
day, Pentecost, was literally fulfilled by the giving of the 
Holy Spirit. Each of these events came on the first day of 
the week and began the new cycle of time. 

This type was first given at the establishing of the cove- 
nant at Mount Sinai, on the day of Pentecost: second, re- 
established in the promised land, at Mount Ebal and Gerizim, 
where the law was read, with its curses for disobedience, and 
blessings for obedience ; and finally fulfilled on the day of 
Pentecost in Jerusalem, when the Holy Spirit was poured out 
upon the disciples. Yet this will all be again retransacted in 
a still greater series of types with their equally important anti- 
types, and cycles of time. 



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195 



Diagram No. 13. 

TYPE NUMBER TWO. 

Cycle of 7 times 7 days, 




CHAPTER 21. 
Cycles of Time. — Continued. 

The Seven Months — The Day of Atonement — The Feast of Trump- 
ets — Diagram No. Fourteen — Cycle of the Seven Months — 
Type and Antitype of the Feast of Trumpets — The Fullness 
of This Type — Feast of Ingathering — A Common Feast for All 
With Joy and Gladness — The " Lovefeast " of the Early Chris- 
tian Church — Its Antitype. 

We have seen how perfectly the previous type prefigured 
the first coming of our Lord and his work, as he closed it on 
the cross, resurrection and giving of the Holy Spirit. We 
follow the types in their logical order, and we would look 
for a type covering the next great event in the cycles of time. 
In a close study of all the history of the past, both sacred and 
profane, in connection with prophecy and the types and shad- 
ows, we can easily see that the next great event will be the 
second advent of our Lord. 

This type of the seven months is given with the same pre- 
cision as the previous one was^ and in the light of types yet to 
come will be fully as clear we believe as the former types that 
have already come to pass, the only difference bein,g that in 
the one that has already been fulfilled we have the proofs 
established, while in the other we have them only forecast 
and pointed out. All true science as well as faith rests firmly 
on laws that have been put to the test and well established. 
We certainly have them here. 

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS. 

The Feast of Trumpets, on the first day of the seventh 
month, ushered in the first of a series of feasts, closing with a 
seven days' feast, called the Feast of Tabernacles, or Feast of 

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CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 



TYPE NUMBER THREE OF THE CYCLES OF TIME. THE 
SEVENTH MONTH. 

Diagram No. 14. 




Count .seven months from the . 

16th -of lAbib to the harvest home feast 



Abib 16. Seventh month ends here. 



Ingathering. While on the tenth day of the same month was 
the day of atonement. Beginning with the first day, let us 
note them in their order, and their prophetical meaning. 

" In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall 
ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an 



CYCLES OF TIME 199 

holy convocation." Lev. 23 : 24. While we fully understand 
the reasons temporally assigned for holding these feasts, we 
leave that to the reader to see in the wording of the text 
cited. Our aim is to deal with the types and prophetic em- 
blems which they forecast. 

The feast of the Pentecost harvest was only dealing with 
the first harvest of the season, which was early fruits and 
wheat and barley. But this feast in the seventh month deals 
with the final ingathering of the full harvest at the close of 
the season's work. The first was the beginning of the first- 
fruits of the season, and typified as we have seen the begin- 
ning of our Lord's ingathering of souls on the day of Pente- 
cost; while this type is the full harvest at the close of the 
season's work, and is a true type of our Lord's return to har- 
vest the earth at the end of this age. Our outline diagram No. 
14 will show the cycle of time of the seventh month, and will 
materially help the student to locate himself in an orderly 
concept of this type. 

The feast of trumpets is so designated because of the blow- 
ing of the trumpets all over the land on that day. See Lev. 
23: 24 ; Num. 29 : 1-6. This was to announce that the time 
of the harvest feast was at hand, and to gather the people 
preparatory for the day of atonement, the 10th day. 

Antitype. — We quote Jesus' own language to show the 
true meaning of this type. " And he shall send his angels with 
a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his 
elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the 
other." Matt. 24: 30, 31; 13: 41; 1 Cor. 15: 52; 1 Thess. 
4: 16; etc. No type could be more perfect than this in its 
application to its antitype. 

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. 

" And this shall be a statute forever unto you : that in 
the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall 
afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one 



200 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among 
you : For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for 
you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins 
before the Lord." Lev. 16: 29, 30. 

This was a day of repentance, fasting and prayer, and 
atonement. See also Ex. 30: 10; Lev. 23 : 27-32. The scape- 
goat was released on this day, over whose head the High 
Priest confessed all the sins of the people, while the goat on 
whom the Lord's lot fell was killed and his blood was used 
to make an atonement for all the sanctuary and the people. 
See Lev. 16: 5-22. 

The day of atonement comes on the tenth day of the seventh 
month, while the paschal lamb was always taken up on the 
tenth day of the first month. We have repeatedly noticed 
its type, and it will easily be understood that that is one type 
and this is entirely different in all respects. That occurred on 
the tenth day of the first month, this on the same day seven 
months later. Seven is again the perfect number, showing a 
full period of time (40 jubilees) from the first to the last 
type. The first was the passover lamb and slain on the four- 
teenth day. The last is the atonement and slain on the tenth 
day. The first typified our release from Egyptian bondage, 
or the power of the prince of this world, but the last is wholly 
a matter between God and man. Two lambs of the goats were 
chosen, one for God and one for all the people. God's lamb 
was slain as an atonement for the people, the other lamb was 
released and taken to an uninhabited region where he would 
never be molested, made free forever. 

That this day of atonement is the Great day of atonement 
in which " He will judge the world in righteousness by that 
man whom he hath ordained " (Acts 17: 31 ; 10:42; Rom. 2: 
16) there can be no doubt. In every paschal lamb we have 
deliverance for God's people represented, and death to his 
enemies always followed. See their deliverance from Egypt 
and the destruction of the Egyptians. Also at the entrance 



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into the promised land, which occurred on the tenth day of 
the first month. The lamb was slain on the fourteenth day; 
they were delivered again and their enemies slain. Again, 
when Jesus fulfilled this type, his people were saved and 
their enemies slain. (The Jews A. D. 70.) Here, on the day 
of atonement, at the close of the year's work, there is a final 
cleaning up for all that is past in the year, which always repre- 
sents a full period of time in all types that occurred annually. 
In fulfillment of this great prototype, let us notice a few of the 
scriptures in its fulfillment. 

Antitype. — " Immediately after the tribulation of those days 
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of 
heaven shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the 
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all of the tribes of the 
earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in 
the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." That this 
is a realistic scene of the day when Jesus comes again to earth 
is beyond dispute, and that it fulfills the type is certainly true. 
Not that Jesus will die again for an atonement upon this day: 
for " Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ; and 
unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9: 28. For by the de- 
creed counsel of God " He was a Lamb slain from the founda- 
tion of the world." Rev. 13 : 8. And the merits of the re- 
demptive blood of the paschal lamb are the merits of the aton- 
ing blood of the Lord's goat on the day of atonement. 

It is the feast of ingathering at the end of the year. The 
Paschal Lamb and Pentecost of Christianity have passed al- 
most forty jubilees ago; but the feast of ingathering has not 
come yet, but will just as surely and accurately as did the 
first. " The reapers are the angels," says our Lord, " and the 
harvest is the end of the age." Matt. 13: 39. (Wilson's 
Emphatic Diaglott.) 

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202 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

in Num. 29: 12-34, is the feast of tabernacles mentioned in 
Deut. 16: 13-15, and Lev. 23: 34-36. We quote from the 
last named reference : " The fifteenth day of this seventh 
month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto 
the Lord. . . . Seven days ye shall offer an offering made 
by fire unto the Lord." In Num.. 29: 12-32, the number and 
kinds of animals are specified for each of the seven days' of- 
ferings. Beginning with thirteen bullocks, two rams, and 
fourteen lambs on the first day of the feast, and reducing the 
bullocks one each day until the seventh day of the feast, seven 
bullocks, the perfect number, are killed on the seventh and 
last day of the last feast of the year. This was a burnt offer- 
ing, an offering made by fire, " a sweet smelling savour unto 
the Lord." 

The blood, fat, and cleansed inwards, with the head, were 
offered as an offering to the Lord, while the flesh was used in 
the feast in common. The widows, orphans, poor, and 
" strangers within thy gates," all shared alike in this joyous 
feast. See Deut. 16: 14. 

Antitype. — The love feast of the early Christian church, 
kept in memory of Jesus' own example and teaching on the 
last night before he was betrayed. See 2 Pet. 2 : 13, last clause, 
and Jude 12. (Wilson's Emphatic Diaglott.) At the begin- 
ning of this, Jesus' last supper with his disciples, he took the 
part of a servant and washed their feet (John 13: 1-17), tell- 
ing them, " If I your Lord and Master have washed your 
feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet. For I have 
given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to 
you." They were to become one in heart and sacrifice all 
their pride, and then they would be fit to eat the Lord's supper 
together. Then they ate the supper, all of them, a full meal. 
See John 13: 1, 2, 12, 26, 28; 1 Cor. 11: 17-22. This was 
the preparation day the first evening (see John 19: 14), and 
Jesus did not eat the passover this year, as he himself was 
the antitype of the passover lamb, and died at the very time 



CYCLES OF TIME 203 

that the lamb was to be slain. He said to his disciples, " With 
desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I 
suffer : For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, 
until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." 

True, he did not eat the passover supper with them, for it 
was eaten the next evening while he was in the tomb. John 
19: 31, 42. But he did eat his own supper, and showed his 
disciples its true meaning. " Ye are they who have continued 
with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a king- 
dom, as my Father hath appointed unto me ; that ye may 
eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones 
judging the twelve tribes of Israel." This is the very same 
type that was given to the twelve tribes at the feast of taber- 
nacles or Harvest Home feast at the close of the year, and was 
eaten one with another and shared with all, the priests and 
the Lord included, and points us to the very same thing : the 
second coming of our Lord as he has stated above and many 
other places. See Matt. 19: 27-29. "For the Lamb which 
is in the midst of the throne shall feed them." Rev. 7: 14-17. 
This is the second coming of our Lord, and the same as the 
marriage supper of the lamb of Rev. 19: 1-9. 

" And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are 
called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith 
unto me, These are the true sayings of God." This is the last 
word in the absolute fulfilling of this " Joyful " type of types, 
for which every true Christian heart longs, " with desire of 
desires." Luke 22: 15. It reaches to the Lord's words when 
he said, " For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, 
until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Luke 22 : 16. 

Immediately after eating his supper with the twelve, " And 
as they were eating," he breaks the bread. Matt. 26: 26. 
" And the cup in like manner after supper." Luke 22 : 19, 20. 
This is the sacrament established instead of the paschal lamb, 
and also a typical memorial to be kept in memory as the seal 
of our redemption. " For as often as ye eat this bread, and 



204 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

drink this cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come." 
1 Cor. 11: 26. This is the same type as the Jewish passover 
and takes its place. This was all given on the last evening 
of Jesus' earthly life and twenty-four hours before the feast 
of the passover. Thus we see how Jesus blended all in this 
one love feast, and told his disciples at the same time, " If 
ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." John 13 : 
17. 

Then Jesus closed this, the first love feast in the Christian 
church, with this injunction to his own: "A new command- 
ment I give unto you, that ye love one another ; even as I have 
loved you, that ye also love one another." John 13 : 34. The 
feast of tabernacles was indeed to be a real love feast to them. 
" And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy sons, and 
thy daughters, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, 
and the widow, that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt 
thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place 
which the Lord shall choose : because the Lord thy God shall 
bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine 
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice." Deut. 16: 14, 15. 

The early Christian church always remembered the widows, 
and orphans, and strangers, and the poor that were among 
them, at their love feasts, or feasts of charity. They had a 
joyful meeting and all ate together at this supper and the 
poor were not to go away empty. The failure to do this in 
harmony with Paul's teaching, and the neglect of the proper 
care of the poor at this feast, brought down the swift censure 
and rebuke of Paul upon the church at Corinth. See 1 Cor. 
11: 17-22. This indeed is the only distinctly Christian feast 
that we have, and as already noted, was given by Jesus on 
his last evening before his crucifixion, and was to be fulfilled 
in the kingdom of God, or when the kingdom of God should 
come. It is self-evident that our Lord perpetuated this feast 
of love as a harvest-home feast, and for the same glad purpose 
that he had given it to his people Israel. 



CYCLES OF TIME 205 

As in the fulfilling of the former types the enemies of the 
Lord were destroyed, so in the fulfilling of this type. Matt. 
13: 37-42; 2 Thess. 1: 7-10. 



CHAPTER 22. 

The Sabbath or Seventh Year. 

A Prophetical Day — The Day, Week, Month and Year in Prophecy 
— Diagram No. Fifteen — The Type of the Sabbath Year: Its 
Antitype. 

" Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou 
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But 
in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, 
a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor 
prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own accord of 
thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of 
thy vine undressed : for it is a year of rest unto the land, and 
the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you ; for thee, and 
for thy servants, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, 
and for the stranger that sojourneth with thee, and for thy 
cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the 
increase thereof be meat." Lev. 25 : 1-7 ; Ex. 23 : 10. 

In this type we have the week of seven years, and the 
seventh year a sabbath. The text explains the temporal side 
and its provision, but in no case do we find in the types a hint 
given as to their great prophetic meaning. While the prophets 
reveal secrets in dark sayings and similitudes, and forecast the 
future events, the types are as it were the blue print of the 
great work of the Architect, and stand out in bold relief when 
once fulfilled as the invincible proofs of the foreordained plan. 

PROPHETICAL AND TYPICAL USES OF THE DAY. 

Some attention has already been given to this subject, but 
we will notice it in a more special manner at this time, inas- 
much as we find the day and week here in this, a year and 
seven years, instead of a day or a week of seven days. 

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208 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

And the sabbath a year of rest instead of a day of rest. 

1. " And God called the light day and the darkness he called 
night." Gen. 1 : 5. This does not allude to time at all, is 
self-explanatory and needs no comment. 

2. " And the evening and the morning were the first day," 
same verse. Here we have a different meaning given to the 
word day. That it alludes to time there is no doubt, but can 
not allude to a solar day as that was not brought into existence 
until the fourth creative day, Gen. 1 : 14-18, and on that 
fourth creative day we find the solar day and year established, 
and the cause which produces them ; so also the lunar month 
and the cause of it. Also the seasons and what was the cause 
of them. Also light and darkness are for the first time di- 
vided, and what we know as a day is made possible. The word 
day as used here is prophetical, and emblematical, meaning a 
period of time. 

3. " In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the 
heavens." Gen. 2: 4. Here we have the six creative days 
grouped and called " in the day." This means practically all 
previous time up to this. 

4. " For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 
Gen. 2: 17. This was in the very beginning of Adam's life, 
yet he lived to be the father of the whole human family after 
that, attaining to the ripe old age of 930 years. Used in the 
same sense as above, and simply means his age or time and 
that he had forfeited his life. Adam's day was 930 years long. 

5. "I have appointed thee each day for a year." Ezek. 4: 
4-6. This is both typical and prophetical. Ezekiel was to use 
390 days to represent 390 years, which would fulfill the time 
to the destruction of Jerusalem. Here a day represents a year, 
the same as in the type we have before us. 

6. In Dan. 9: 24, we have a prophetic week, and it is self- 
apparent that each week represents seven days. The same 



THE SABBATH OR SEVENTH YEAR 209 

meaning is attached to Dan. 8 : 14, and gives us 2300 years to 
the restoration of the Jews, from whatever date it was reck- 
oned. The same figure is used repeatedly by Daniel and John 
the Revelator. See Rev. 11 : 3; 12: 6. The forty-two months 
of ch. 11 : 2 are the same, thirty days to the month, and all 
reach down that many years. 

7. " One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a 
thousand years as one day." 2 Pet. 3 : 8. Peter was writing 
about the Lord coming again, and that he was not slack con- 
cerning his promise. We have seen the former type and how it 
clearly prefigured the second advent of our Lord. The most 
of the difficulty in the cycles of time vanishes when we once 
get a good comprehension of the method by which time is 
reckoned and applied in the prophetic emblems and the cycles 
of time in the types. 

In following up our last type, the seven months, and its 
antitype, the second coming of our Lord, let us look now at 
this, the next in order of time, the seven years. This is the 
perfect type of a full period of time, and is the type of the time 
of the human race on the earth. With Peter's version of 
one day being as a thousand years, and John the Revelator 
positively stating that the saints " shall live and reign with 
Christ a thousand years " (Rev. 20: 6), we have a key to this 
type that will reveal its true meaning to us. For if the sab- 
bath day, the millennium of this world, is one thousand years 
long, the other six working days of this the human period, 
would be just the same. That gives us just six working days 
of a thousand years each, from the creation of man, when God 
said to him, " Go forth and subdue and conquer every living 
thing, and have dominion over it" (Gen. 1: 28), to the time 
that Jesus binds the devil and casts him into the pit for a 
thousand years. Rev. 20: 1-3. 

The words of God are not to be locally or temporally in- 
terpreted, where they deal with great questions, but invariably 



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CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 



THE TYPE OF THE SABBATH YEAR AND ITS ANTITYPE. 



Diagram No. 15. 



Antitype 



THE SEVEN YEARS. 



3,000 Y. 



Type of years. 



4,000 Y. 




vj Final judgment at close of this age. 
(See next diagram. No. 16.) 



EXPLANATION. — Inside figures from one year to seven, 
show the type of years. Outside marginal figures show the 
antitype of 7,000 years from the Creation of man, to close 
of the age of man. 



THE SABBATH OR SEVENTH YEAR 211 

have a universal application to the whole period of creation 
and time, as applied to the human family. In the epistle to 
the Hebrews we have almost all its background from the types 
and cycles of time from the Old Testament, and without under- 
standing them as applied by the writer, his work to us is 
practically meaningless : but in the true light they are the 
deepest and among the richest in the Book. 

In Heb. 4, we have the type of the sabbath and its true 
meaning dealt with. After warning his Hebrew brethren that 
there was great danger of them failing of entering into their 
promised rest, just as their brethren had failed who were led 
into the promised land by Joshua, and yet were afterwards de- 
stroyed because of their lack of faith and obedience, so likewise 
would this type of the Jews become the antitype of the faithless 
disbelievers in Christ. On the other hand he clearly shows us 
that this is no temporal thing with which he is dealing, but 
an eternal one. " For we which have believed do enter into 
rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall 
enter into my rest : although the works were finished from the 
foundation of the world." Heb. 4 : 3. This is clear, then, that 
if it had not been for their unbelief they would not have 
been disfranchised, but type would have been swallowed up 
in antitype, the temporal would have given way to the eternal 
without their destruction. 

When God finished his work he rested, and will until man 
does what God designed he shall. If one man fails another 
takes his place, and God's work will never fail ; man must 
bear his own loss for his unbelief. " For he spake in a certain 
place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the 
seventh day from all his works." V. 4. We emphasize the 
fact again, that God finished HIS WORK when he gave it 
over to man, and man must complete his. God is still resting, 
and will until Jesus Christ through redeemed man completely 
conquers the world for God. This is God's sabbath day from 
his creative work, and is seven thousand years long. Let the 



212 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

reader compare diagram No. 15 with No. 16, for a full com- 
prehension of this full cycle of time. 

" Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter there- 
in, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in be- 
cause of unbelief." V. 6. The word " remaineth " was future 
yet when he wrote, to those in the flesh, just as it is to us: 
its real antitype is full in the sabbath rest or millennium of 
this world, the true antitype of the seventh day, and seventh 
year. 

Verses 7 to 11, of Heb. 4, we quote literally from the Syriac 
version of the New Testament, because of its clearness and 
simplicity of style. " Again he established another day, 
a long time afterwards ; as above written, that David said, 
Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For 
if Joshua, the son of Nun, had given them rest, he would 
not have spoken afterwards of another day. Therefore it is 
established that the people of God are to have a sabbath. For 
he who had entered into his rest, hath also rested from his 
works, as God did from his. Let us, therefore, strive to enter 
into that rest; lest we fall short, after the manner of them 
who believed not." This day of rest is clearly pointed out 
to us for the children of God here, as remaining, and yet in 
the future, and can mean nothing less than the sabbath or 
millennium, of this world ; which is the lively hope of every 
true child of God. " White robes were given unto them that 
they should rest yet for a little season." Rev. 6: 11. 

The type of the seven years and the sabbath year must not 
be confounded with the jubilee. We will consider that next, 
in its true relation. This was only a sabbath of rest unto the 
Lord for the land, and did not change the order of existing 
things to anything near like what it was changed to at the 
expiration of the time for the jubilee. After this sabbath, an- 
other cycle of seven years began its work, and so on. One of 
the common mistakes made by Bible scholars is in assigning 
the judgment of the world at the second coming of Christ 



THE SABBATH OR SEVENTH YEAR 213 

to the final judgment. In the type of the jubilee years this 
will be more fully noted, as also in the opening of the seven 
seals in the chapters that follow. 

We wish to call attention to this type of seven years, that 
in the following type it is repeated seven times, and therefore 
it takes seven of these to make the next higher type com- 
plete. This was also true in the seven days, again in the 
seven weeks, and repeated in the seven years just considered. 



CHAPTER 23. 

The Seven Times Seven Years: the Fiftieth Year a 

Jubilee. 

Types and Their Antitypes of the Year of Jubilee=— Diagram No. 
Sixteen, of the Year of Jubilee, and Its Cycles of Time— Ful- 
filling of This Type— The Doctrine of " The Final Restitution " 
— The Final Doom of the Wicked — Diagram No. Seventeen — 
The Seven Complete Types, the Finished Works of God — 
Diagram No. Eighteen — The Seven Creative Days — Conclu- 
sion. 

" Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, 
seven times seven years, and the space of the seven sabbaths 
of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt 
thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth 
day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye 
make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye 
shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout 
all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof ; and ye shall 
return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every 
man to his family. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto 
you : ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of 
itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vines undressed. 
For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the 
increase thereof out of the field." Lev. 23 : 8-12. Fifty years 
completed the greatest number of years that were reckoned 
in any of the types or cycles of time under the law. Hence 
in this we find the limit to given types. The figures of this 
type are so complete and perfect that they must be self-evident 
to the most casual Bible scholar. 

This is the type of the final restitution of all things spoken 
of by the Apostle Peter. " And he shall send Jesus Christ, 

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216 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must 
receive until the times of the restitution of all things, which 
God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since 
the world began." Acts 3: 20, 21. All things that God has 
ever promised that have not been fulfilled will be then. Let 
us notice that this jubilee was for God's people and those that 
had become SO' by adoption. " Ye shall have one manner of 
law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country : 
for I am the Lord your God." Lev. 24: 22. This reaches 
all of God's people in the year of jubilee. We will take up 
a few of the many striking types in this closing type of time, 
and compare the type with its antitype. 

1. Type. — "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the 
land is mine ; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." 

Antitype. — " The earth is the Lord's and the fullness there- 
of." 1 Cor. 10: 26, 28. 

2. Type. — " In all the land of your possession ye shall 
grant a redemption for the land." The man who through some 
misfortune or mismanagement lost his land, or became a 
bond-servant, was always granted the right to redeem his lost 
estate. 

Antitype. — This privilege is granted us by our God, through 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 



THE SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS 

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, AND ITS CYCLE OF TIME. 

ANTITYPE. 
Diagram No. 16. 



217 



TYFE,- 




The third ring ushers time into eternity. The figures on 
the circles mark the division of the cycles of Creation, Time, 
on to Eternity. 

First inside ring is the type from Lev. 25, of the 7x7 years 
from one jubilee unto the other. The second ring is its 
antitype, the seven thousand years of this earth, from the 
creation of man to the consummation of the age of mortal 
man. 



218 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

3. Type. — "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubi- 
lee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day 
of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout 
all your land." Lev. 25 : 9. This was a signal that the time 
had come and the day of atonement was here, and to gather 
all the people together for the work of that greatest of all 
days. 

Antitype. — " And the angel which I saw stand upon the 
sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware 
by him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and 
the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that 
therein are, and the sea, and the things that are therein, that 
there should be time no longer: but in the days of the voice 
of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mys- 
tery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his 
servants the prophets." Rev. 10: 5-7. This is a full end of 
the age of man. This was the seventh seal, and the seventh 
angel sounding his last trumpet for the final great and last 
day of atonement at the close of the last sabbath in the end of 
the age of mortal man, — a most wonderful, realistic fulfillment 
of the type. 

4. Type. — " In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every 
man unto his possession." Lev. 25 : 13. 

Antitype. — " Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the 
earth." Matt. 5 : 5. This promise of Jesus covers the full 
promise that God made to Abraham, that " In his seed [mean- 
ing Christ] should all the nations of the earth be blessed." 
Gen. 22: 17. There is still another sense of this type which 
will likewise be full then, namely, that the Jew will also receive 
his full share of the blessing at that time, the same as all the 
rest, and on the same basis of judgment and rewards. 

5. Type. — " And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and pro- 
claim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants 
thereof." Lev. 25 : 10. Though some things were held over 



THE SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS 219 

to the perpetual right of the former owner, this was a year 
of absolute freedom to all that were the servants of God. All 
debts were canceled, all servants were as freemen, all the 
refugees in the cities of refuge who had fled thither for safety, 
were set at liberty. " Proclaim liberty throughout all the land 
unto all the inhabitants," was the command of God. All 
were given a new start in life, nothing was held over to mar 
the peace and happiness of the complete and peaceful return 
of every one to their family and full inheritance. If they were 
obedient, God promised them that there would be an abun- 
dance of food to do them until the new harvest would be 
gathered the next year. They were not to do any harvesting 
at all, only eat that out of the field that grew of itself; this 
was to be free for all. The land, fruit and all, was wholly 
dedicated to God this year ; he would supply their wants ; they 
were to worship and obey him. Lev. 25 : 18-22. 

Antitype. — " And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, 
I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write : for these 
words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. 
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will 
give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of 
life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; and 
I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev. 21 : 5-7. 
This is the final restitution of all things. Here we have the 
new heaven and the new earth. Here is the time of absolute 
freedom for God with his children, and every man will be set 
free in the fullest sense of the word freedom. Free from 
sin, sorrow, pain, or death. The cycle of time is complete. 
Eden with its tree of life is here really and not typically as 
at the beginning of this cycle of time. The seventh cycle of 
time, of seven, has fulfilled its course. 

Here is where some make a fatal mistake in the application 
of the doctrine of the final restitution, seeking to establish the 
teaching that finally all will be saved. There is not a doctrine 
in the Bible but must be entirely true to its type before its 



220 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

proofs are trustworthy. And again, vice versa, must the type 
meet its antitype truly and fully to be of any real use to the 
interpretation of the divine record. The type is the temporal, 
the antitype is the spiritual, the real substance. Let us notice 
the type on this last question, and let it suffice us to heed what 
the Lord says. 

6. Type. — " He that despised Moses' law died without mercy 
under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, 
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who' hath trodden un- 
der foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the cov- 
enant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath 
done despite unto the spirit of grace ? " Heb. 10 : 28, 29. May 
Jesus himself give the answer to this. 

Antitype. — " But the fearful, and the abominable, and mur- 
derers, and whoremongers, and all sorcerers, and idolaters, 
and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burnetii 
with fire and brimstone: WHICH IS THE SECOND 
DEATH." Rev. 21 : 8. 

No language can make this stronger. Under the law, the 
criminal found guilty of open defiance to the law was put 
to death, and there were none left at the jubilee year. So it 
will be at the final judgment, — " And whosoever was not 
found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of 
fire." Rev. 20: 15. "This is the second death." Rev. 20: 
14. This is the final doom, no escape. 

THE SEVEN CYCLES OF CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY. 

Beginning with the seven days of time as the standard unit 
of all the subsequent cycles of Creation, Time and Eternity, 
we find them perfected in seven cycles of seven periods of 
time in each. Thus we would have in the last cycle a period 
of time reaching from the very beginning of creation to the 
dawn of eternity, or the complete works of God with this 
world, — all the other types and cycles of time merged into 
this one completed period of perfected work of our Creator. 



THE SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS 

THE SEVEN COMPLETE CYCLES OF TIME. 
Diagram No. 17. 



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Years ^"' lLE »«« 



IL « Ty„ 



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THE SEVEN CYCLES OF CREATION, TIME AND 
ETERNITY, EACH CONTAINING SEVEN CYCLES OF 
TIME WITHIN THEMSELVES. Given in their order 
they stand as in this diagram. If the reader has studied well 
the preceding chapters on these cycles of time, this will be 
clear as to the proper relation of each one to the other. A 
fuller concept of the last one, No. 7, will be found in diagram 
No. 18, following this. 



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CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 



" And on the seventh day God finished his work which he 
had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work 
which he had made." Gen. 2: 2. God had plenty of other 
work to do after he had finished his part of this world and 
turned it over to man to finish the part he has left for him to 
do. 

We can not look for a temporal side only to this scripture 

THE SEVEN CREATIVE DAYS, OF SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS EACH. 

Diagram MTo. 18. 




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IrFlhis diagram we have the complete cycles of 
•Creation, Time and Eternity, all shown; from the time 
the Spirit of God moved on matter. Gen. 1 : 1-3, to 
the finished product of Rev. 21, 22. Deduced on the 
basis furnished by the other cycles and types of time, 
it gives us this as the finished product. 
*• 49,000 Years, then the final year of Jubilee, which 
would be 'the fiftieth thousand years. 



THE SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS 223 

that was so firmly incorporated in the law, but must look for 
its true meaning in a measure comparable to the one who gave 
it. Jesus healed a man on the sabbath day and the Jews 
sought to kill him for it, but he excused himself on the ground 
that " My Father works to this very hour, and I work also." 
John 5:17. At this the Jews became very angry at him, and 
he made it still stronger, " In truth I tell you, the Son can 
do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father 
doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also." V. 19. 
(Twentieth Century New Testament.) 

This related directly to what he had done on that sabbath 
day, and he vindicated himself by his Father's working on 
the sabbath day. Jesus shows most conclusively the true spir- 
itual side, the eternal side, of the type of the sabbath. God 
also shows most conclusively his great regard for man when 
he places him over the works of his hands. The temporal 
man did not, could not, finish the works of God here on earth 
as he had planned it because of his sinful and disobedient 
nature. So " What the law could not do, in that it was weak 
through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness 
of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh : that 
the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk 
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Rom. 8: 3, 4. We 
then should clearly understand that it remains to carry out 
the real spiritual side of the work of man in the complete 
subjugation of this world to God. And as the first Adam was 
only a figure of him who was to come, we must look to Jesus 
to finish the work. This he did and turned it over to 
man again. " I have finished the work which thou gavest 
me to do." John 17: 4. Then he told his trained workers 
to " Go into all the world and make disciples of all the nations, 
. . . teaching' them to do all that I have commanded you, 
and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." 
Matt. 28: 19, 20. 

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224 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

when his part was done. Jesus came and did his part and has 
turned it over to mian again, with the Holy Spirit as his helper 
until the end of the age. Then Jesus " entered into his rest 
as God did also' from his." Heb. 4. And man must put 
in his full six days of labor, as all the types so clearly and 
prominently point out; then he will be given his thousand 
years' rest from his labors, after which he will enjoy the 
JUBILEE. 

CONCLUSION. 

We therefore conclude that God's sabbath day of rest ex- 
tends from the creation of man to the time of his full con- 
quest of this world for God. This point has been made very 
clear by the Apostle Paul. " Then cometh the end, when 
he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Fa- 
ther ; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority 
and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies 
under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death." 1 Cor. 15: 24-26. The last enemy, death, spoken 
of here is the second death of Rev. 20: 6, 14; 21 : 8, and will 
take place at the final judgment, just before the year of jubi- 
lee is ushered in. This will complete the work of the Christ- 
man, for Jesus was accounted as a man, and stood in the 
type-man's place. See 1 Cor. 15: 21, 22. 

Following up the laws of the cycles of time, and the types, 
we find that one-seventh of the time of each week of days 
or years was set apart as a sabbath of time under the law of 
Moses, which was composed only of types and shadows. Thus 
every seventh year was a sabbath : and we found this true for 
the seven thousand years of this world (which was made 
by Christ, John 1: 10), that the last thousand years were to 
enjoy a complete rest from the devil ; and those that had part 
in the first resurrection would live and reign with Christ a 
thousand years. Rev. 20: 1-6. This same law applied to 
the six working days of the creation of the world by God, as 
given in Gen. 1, would give them each seven thousand years 



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of time. See diagram No. 18. And the last seven thousand 
years (which are the years of man on earth) would be God's 
sabbath. 

This would bring his time up to 49,000 years from the be- 
ginning of his creation of this world, to the final completion 
of it, and the ushering in of the jubilee, on the fiftieth thou- 
sandth year. Thus every cycle of time in Creation, Time and 
Eternity would center in this last one and finish them all. 
And we may the more fully understand how, and why, God 
said, " Behold, I make all things new." Rev. 21 : 5. 

AN EPOCH OF TIME. 

The number forty, so prominent throughout the Bible, is 
not a cycle of time, but marks the epoch of time through a 
series of cycles of time. Thus, from Adam to the offering 
of Isaac, or sealing and confirming the covenant with Abra- 
ham, is 2,000 years. From this point to the Lord's first ad- 
vent into the world is 2,000 years. And in accordance with 
the types it will be 2,000 years from that time to his second 
advent. Each of these contains just forty jubilees. 

We realize full well that saint and sinner alike will reap 
everlasting good by studying these pages with an open Bible 
and an open heart, ready not to fault, and to criticise, but to 
seek and search for the hid treasures which our Father has 
for them that believe and will trust him. 

Incomplete and faulty as these pages may be, they will 
furnish the key for the deepest and grandest study that ever 
engaged the mind of mortal man. The computation of many 
things called scientific, and upon which men have built colos- 
sal structures, and made marvelous strides in art, science and 
civilization, is based upon deductions utterly incomprehensible 
to all except the few. That the critic will criticise we doubt 
not ; he did that for our Master ; yet we know that even he will 
find rich food for the culture of heart, mind and Spirit if he 
will read rightly and honestly, these pages of TRUTH. 



226 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

That God should have taken just such a course to unfold 
to his children the events of creation, time and eternity, is 
certainly marvelous and grand beyond all conception of mortal 
man. That he should unfold it by degrees to them as the ages 
go by is the very height and depth of infinite wisdom. For 
by so doing he leads man up and on constantly, as the un- 
folding develops, and time gradually but surely rounds out the 
cycles of the ages, merging them into the bosom of an un- 
fathomable eternity. With such an array of divine truth to 
sustain the integrity of the Bible, no skeptic, atheist or infidel 
can remain such, and allow his judgment to sustain him. The 
fact that Jesus has met and fulfilled more than fifty per cent 
of all the types and prophecies fully and literally, should for- 
ever silence all criticisms as to its truthfulness, past, present 
or what is yet to come. 

From the planting of a tiny seed in the bosom of the earth 
to its ripening grain, or the tiny bud of the fruit tree to its 
beautiful, perfected ripe fruit, is only a repeated miracle of 
a perfect law, that builds a world. The Being- who could 
bring a single perfect law into existence was able to bring 
a million more to sustain his marvelous plan of " CREA- 
TION, TIME and ETERNITY." 



CHAPTER 24. 
Revelation. 

Introduction — Meaning of the Title — The Bible Its Own Com- 
mentary — Its Note of Warning and Triumph — Satan Defeated 
— Jesus' Last Message — John Commissioned by Jesus to Write 
Revelation — The Seven Churches — The Seven Messages — For 
What Purpose Given. 

REVELATION means revealed: the book of Revelation 
was given to the beloved Apostle John for this purpose, and 
is ' The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him 
to show unto his servant, even the things which must shortly 
come to pass : and he sent and signified it by his angel unto 
his servant John ; who bare witness of the word of God, and 
of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he 
saw." Rev. 1-1,2. 

The amount of literature that has been written in the form 
of Commentaries, Histories, Expositions and Impositions, on 
the book o± Revelation, is immense. Perhaps the larger part 
of them have been of the last-named type, and have been 
far worse than useless, while some of them may have some 
value, and some few are quite a source of real benefit and 
inspiration ; yet the author of this work has not taken it upon 
himself to attempt to recommend or condemn any of his prede- 
cessors in their work, but rather to look at the Bible, as a com- 
mentary within itself, and let it tell its own story in the light 
of the past, present, and the future which it may illumine. 

It is indeed a fitting work to close the inspired Book, sum- 
ming up as it does the past and present, projecting into the 
future ages unto the close of time, and at the dawm of eternity 
leaving us standing on the portals of the " New Heaven and the 
New Earth." To interpret the Apocalypse we need the rest 

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of the Book. We need all the Master Architect has given us 
to build with, and then leave the unfinished future just where 
he has not declared it. While there can be no controversy as 
to the greatness of its mysteries, yet it is a book of revelations, 
and as such was given us for our comfort and consolation. 
It records the mighty struggle of the kingdom of heaven, or 
church of Jesus Christ, against the opposing power of the 
prince of darkness. It assures us of its final, full, and com- 
plete triumph over all its opposing forces. 

The scene of action is heaven, earth and hell. We find 
Satan having free access to heaven, earth, and hell to begin 
with, but he is soon cast out of heaven, later defeated on earth, 
and lastly cast into the lake of fire, while Jesus Christ and his 
ever-increasing army of white-robed saints sing their songs 
of victory as they go on conquering and to conquer, until the 
last enemy has been vanquished. The Gospels reveal the star 
of Bethlehem, " The good tidings of great joy which shall 
be to all people." The Acts of the Apostles witness the 
flaming fire of the Holy Spirit, as it spreads far and near on 
its world-wide mission of evangelization. The Epistles give 
the daily life of the Christian church in detail, leading them 
on to perfection in the Spirit life, while Revelation is the 
bulwark of the Christian's hope of glory. Like the Great Pyra- 
mid of Egypt standing on the border of the mighty desert, 
keeping its silent watch through the vista of ages, and defy- 
ing man to unfold its secrets, so is this marvelous master- 
piece of God's last written message to man. 

It closes its message with the solemn warning, " I testify 
unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this 
book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him 
the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man 
shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, 
God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out 
of the holy city, which are written in this book." Rev. 22: 
18, 19. We may look at it with sacred awe and receive its 



REVELATION 229 

message, — Jesus' last message to us direct from heaven. It 
will make us strong if we do so; but woe to the destructive 
critic, or impostor ! better had it been for that man had he 
never been born. 

As Moses was permitted to talk with God on Mount Sinai, 
and to have glimpses of his glory, so the. beloved John is 
permitted to have a glimpse of Jesus in his glorified state 
while a prisoner in exile on the lonely Isle of Patmos. John 
was " in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard a great 
voice as of a trumpet saying, What thou seest, write in a 
book and send it to the seven churches." Rev. 1: 10, 11. 
Then followed the vision of Jesus himself to John. 

One glimpse of him in his glorified state is enough to 
cause even a man like John to fall as one dead at his feet. 
After exhausting language in his attempt to describe his mar- 
velous appearance, still we must know that he failed to do so. 
Neither is there understanding or conception by which we 
might understand or grasp it fully. With the same tender 
touch that he used while in the flesh, Jesus laid his right hand 
upon him., saying, " Fear not ; I am the first and the last, and 
the living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for 
evermore, and I have the keys of death and of hades. Write 
therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which 
are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter." Rev. 
1: 17-19. 

THE MESSAGE TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. 

" The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches : 
and the seven candlesticks are seven churches." Rev. 1 : 20. 

Just why Jesus chose these seven churches does not matter, 
or in itself seem very difficult of understanding. They were 
representative churches, and moreover close together, so that 
the message to one would quickly reach all of them. ' By 
comparing notes of all things warned of, and what each had 
for which they were given credit by the Master, it would 
serve an excellent purpose to stimulate them to renew their 



230 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

spiritual relation with him. Much has been said and writ- 
ten concerning the real purpose of these seven epistles, but 
their real significance must be sought within themselves and 
their twofold meaning. First, they have a direct application 
to the churches to which they were written, and give us a 
clear insight to the existing condition of these seven repre- 
sentative churches, and just what was required of them in 
order that their candlestick might remain with them. Jesus 
shows them in a full, clear light just where they stand, what 
good they have that he commends them for, and what he holds 
against them and graciously gives them all space to repent of 
the things he holds against them. 

Seven is the prophetic number of perfection, therefore we 
will find it within these seven churches, and it will suffice 
for all the churches of all the age to come, as a warning and as 
a standard of measurement by which they may know the ap- 
proval or disapproval of their divine Head. 

We have the church that is rich in faith and works, but on 
the verge of dissolution because she has left her first love. 
The church that is poor, despised and rejected, yet rich before 
her Divine Master, is promised a crown of life if she con- 
tinues faithful through the coming persecutions. 

In some we find false teachers, false doctrine, idol wor- 
ship and all the sins common to all ages and churches. Two 
churches are singled out perhaps as models of extremes, one 
of imperfection and the other of perfection. The church of 
Philadelphia has the honor of having an open door set before 
her, which no man will be able to close, and her enemies are 
to be subdued before her, and she is to be protected against 
the bitter persecution that is coming upon all the rest. The 
church of Laodicea has the sentence oi rejection passed upon 
her, unless she will be zealous and repent. She is not com- 
mended for anything, but is rich in this world's goods, and 
is blinded thereby to her real spiritually poverty-stricken con- 
dition. " Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten 



REVELATION 231 

riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou 
art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and 
naked : I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that 
thou mayest become rich : and white garments that thou may- 
est clothe thyself. ..." 

The seven stars are the seven elders of the seven churches 
to whom the seven messages of warning were sent. That 
these messages were intended for the church universal through 
the coming age can not be doubted : for each one of the seven 
messages he closes with an appeal that should reach every 
church in all the earth for all the age to come. " He that 
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches." 
Rev. 2: 7, 11, 17, 29; 3: 6, 13, 22. There is no uncertain 
sound in this prophetic utterance as to its universal applica- 
tion to all of his people. 

How fitting this appeal of the great Head of the Church 
to his followers ; — after the work had been well started and in 
working order, as it were, for a season, to visit it through one 
of his most trusted Apostles, and show each of them, by 
seven written messages, their true relation to him. It must 
have put the whole church on a new spiritual plane, and re- 
vived its strength, which at this time was being severely tested 
by the bitter persecutions waged against it. See Rev. 2: 10, 
13. With the message to the seven churches closes the first 
part of the book of Revelation. This scene took place on the 
Isle of Patmos, on the earth ; while from hence the scene is 
changed, and John is given a greater range of vision. 



CHAPTER 25. 
Revelation. — Continued. 

John's Vision in Heaven — True Interpretation — Bible True to Its 
Purpose — Jesus Christ the Central Figure in Revelation — The 
Two Witnesses — The Book Sealed With Seven Seals Delivered 
to Jesus — The Four Beasts — The Fifth a Lamb — Opening of 
the Seven Seals — Jesus' Glory and Honor — The Testimony of 
the Two Witnesses — Meaning of the Four Beasts. 

" After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in 
the heavens, and the first voice which I heard was as of a 
trumpet speaking with me, saying, Ascend hither, and I will 
show thee what must occur after these things." Rev. 4: 1. 
(Wilson.) 

" After these things " refers to the vision John had just 
seen, and the writing of the seven messages to the seven 
churches. This brings us to this fourth chapter where the 
scene opens in heaven, and John is told to come up and he 
would be shown other things besides the ones he had already 
seen. This verse refers to the vision that John is about to 
be shown, and not to the meaning of the vision as is errone- 
ously inferred by some who would make this verse an arbi- 
trary medium of interpreting the rest of the book. 

A clear rendering of this scripture reads thus, — " Come up 
here and I will show you what must take place." The vision 
was to take place, and John was to write it down for the 
instruction of his people. Let us ever bear in mind when we 
are engaged in the study of Revelation, that every part is a 
part of the great outline plan of God, and will not, can not be 
out of harmony with any of the great laws of world-develop- 
ing so clearly made manifest in " Creation, Time and Eter- 
nity." We must rather interpret it in the light of him who 

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234 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

said, " I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, 
who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty," 
Rev. 1 : 8, — he who knew and foresaw the end from the be- 
ginning; he who was with the Father from the beginning, he 
of whom it was said, " That all things were made through him, 
and without him was not anything made that was made." 
John 1 : 3, 10. The Heir of all things. 

It is he who is the central figure in this marvelous revela- 
tion, it is he who volunteers to open the book and loose the 
seals thereof. To attempt to interpret this book of revealed 
things in any other light than the supremest Idealistic concep- 
tion based on such a character, must end in a complete failure. 

The scene of Rev. 4 and 5 is in the council chambers of 
heaven and is a preparation for the wonderful dramatic vision 
about to be revealed unto John. God's throne is revealed in 
its magnificent splendor, just as it was to Ezekiel while Israel 
was in captivity in the land of the Chaldeans. See Ezek. 
1 : 4-28. And Ezekiel in a large measure duplicates the work 
of John in his prophetical visions. Daniel gives in brief what 
we have before us in these two chapters, Dan. 7: 13, 14, as 
well as much that follows later in both Ezekiel, Daniel, Zech- 
ariah and Revelation. The witnesses to the opening of the 
seven seals are the two witnesses of God. (Rev. 11: 3, 4; 
Zech. 4: 11-14), the two anointed ones, Moses the servant and 
Jesus the Master (Heb. 3: 1-6), the one the representative 
of the Old Testament, the other of the New. The expression 
and utterance of their testimony are written out in the Old 
and New Testaments. 

In the fifth chapter we have the presentation of the book, 
sealed with seven seals, and the challenge of the strong angel 
for some one who was worthy to open the book and loose the 
seals thereof. There was none found until Jesus the perfected 
Lamb of God volunteers or prevails to do so. As soon as he 
takes the book he is worshiped by all the host of heaven, 
saying : " Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the 



REVELATION 235 

seals thereof : for thou wast slain and didst purchase unto 
God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and peo- 
ple, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a king- 
dom of priests ; and they reign upon the earth." From this 
time forth tihe worship and praise of all the hosts of heaven 
are given " unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the 
Lamb, . . for ever and ever." That Jesus is the one 
that opens the book and breaks the seals, there is no doubt 
at all. That he had been slain is stated, and that the seven 
spirits of God rested upon him is also stated, ch. 5 : 6, thus 
signifying his perfection. That he is now entering upon his 
royal honors is also clearly stated, as a mighty company of 
the redeemed are there to sing his praise, v. 9-13, and do so 
before his Father. 

That there is about to transpire one of the greatest events 
of the world's history is self-evident, because of the prepara- 
tion for it. 

OPENING OF THE SEVEN SEALS. REV. 6 TO 11, INCLUSIVE. 

This is a crowning day for Jesus, this is a day of answered 
prayers for him, when he prayed for his disciples and said, 
" Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me 
be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which 
thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the foundation 
of the world." What a day of triumphant glory to Jesus, 
as in the presence of ten thousand times ten thousand, and 
thousands of thousands of his redeemed followers, he should 
be thus honored before them and the holy angels. 

Never since the creation of man, when " the morning stars 
sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy," 
has there been placed upon record such a marvelous scene of 
splendid joy as this. The day of his birth was great, the day 
of his redemption was greater, but the day of his coronation 
was greatest. Here he sees " Of the travail of his soul and is 
satisfied." Isa. 53: 11. 



236 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Here, in the presence of the weeping, beloved John, Jesus 
steps forward and takes out of his Father's hand the Book of 
books, the Bible, and proceeds to open and reveal it in a most 
remarkable panorama from start to finish. This is clearly 
shown in the closing part of the seventh seal record, when the 
seventh and last angel sounds his trumpet. " But in the days 
of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, 
then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good 
tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets." Rev. 
10: 7. The end of the seventh seal is ch. 11: 15-18. This 
reaches to the final judgment, this is certainly clear in its own 
wording. Having thus seen the end from the beginning, we 
will take up the opening of the seals in their respective order 
and call upon the two witnesses to testify concerning the mys- 
teries that have been declared through them; believing that 
Revelation was given to reveal many of the former mysteries 
of the prophets. Also, the intents and purposes of the past 
ages are the more clearly seen in one summing up of them 
all in the end. 

god's two witnesses. 

That the Old and New Testaments are the two witnesses 
of God spoken of in Rev. 11: 3-12, must stand logically un- 
disputed ; Moses and Jesus Christ being the " Word that was 
made flesh," in each. The times of their work, or a special 
part, is stated, but the beginning and ending are usually left 
very shadowy. We need not guess at this when we remem- 
ber the words of Jesus, when he said, " This gospel of the 
kingdom must be first preached to all the world as a WIT- 
NESS to them, then shall the end come." Matt. 24: 14. 
In every age this has been God's only method of witnessing 
to man, and now in the end of the age he calls upon the 
finished two witnesses to testify of him ; and John was espe- 
cially charged what the consequences would be for any man 



REVELATION 237 

either to " add to, or take from, this book of Revelation : " 
as it closed God's witness to man as a revealed will. 

THE FOUR BEASTS. 

The four beasts here, in Rev. 4 : 6-9 ; 5 : 6-9, are the same 
as those of Ezek. 1 : 5-25. Ezekiel's description of them is 
much fuller, and gives us some idea further as to their mis- 
sion. " Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went ; thither 
was the spirit to go." Ezek. 1 : 20. We also learn from 
both John and Ezekiel that they were constantly in attendance 
upon the throne of God: and that God's throne was above 
them. Ezek. 1 : 26. Now in the prophecies we find that a 
beast represents the head of a kingdom, and the kingdom it- 
self with it. See Dan. 7: 3-8, 17, and in Rev. 13: 1-18; 17: 
8, etc. But none of these holds with the four in John's vision, 
except the four living creatures or beasts of Ezekiel's vision: 
the others are explained at the time given, while these four 
had evidently done their service the same as the four and 
twenty Elders. 

They sing the same song of redemption with the Elders, 
have each a part in worshiping and praising the Lamb. Rev. 
5 : 8-10. Yet they are representatives of powers and the Spirit 
of God is in them. We notice that each in its turn, as a seal 
is opened, says, "Come and see." Rev. 6: 1, 3, 5, 7. We 
would presume that each had a close connection with the 
one opened and was recognized in this manner by the apostle. 
Their mission seems to end with the fourth seal, therefore we 
must associate them with whatever time and events are asso- 
ciated with the first four seals. 

We still have another clue as to the true interpretation of 
the four beasts, namely, the fifth beast. " And I saw in the 
midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in 
the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had 
been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the 



238 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth." Rev. 
5 : 6. Here we see the fifth living creature and it is a lamb and 
in a representative state, as it once had been. It would seem, 
then, as Jesus himself is thus so clearly brought before us in 
his past work, that in him we have all the past dispensations 
filled up ; and that, as these four living creatures also had the 
living spirit in them, they each represent a period of time 
previous to Jesus' coming into the world. In this light we 
can assign to them first, second, third and fourth place in the 
four days of time, of a thousand years each, thus bringing us 
down to the birth and triumphant resurrection of Christ. Here 
the four previous days' work would end and the four living 
creatures would also become subject to Jesus Christ. 

Let it be well understood that they and the Lamb alone are 
mentioned in connection with the opening of the seals after 
the Lamb takes the book. 



CHAPTER 26. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

Diagram No. Nineteen — The Seven Ages of Man — Showing the 
Seven Seals, and Their Time and Place and Meaning — Opening 
of the First Seal — The Marvelous Unfolding of God's Plan in 
Revelation — Opening of the Second Seal — Its Interpreta- 
tion. 

OPENING OF THE FIRST SEAL. 

" And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, 
and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with 
a voice of thunder, Come. And I saw and behold, a white 
horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow ; and there was 
given unto him a crown : and he came forth conquering, and 
to conquer." Rev. 6: 1-2. In the unfolding of the plan of 
Revelation we have at once one of the -most beautiful and 
wonderful of all the master works of God in behalf of man. 

From the fourth chapter to the end of the book there is 
just one theme, — the unfolding of the age of man. While 
the story of God's dealing with the children of man prior to 
the first advent of Jesus, has been well told by him in the law 
and the prophets, and the work of Jesus Christ on earth in the 
writings of the evangelists and apostles, the Revelator passes 
these by in a few brief paragraphs. Yet in these he has un- 
folded the past in a most wonderful way. As he proceeds, 
step by step, the unfolding increases as its ever-expanding 
growth demands it. Beginning with the creation of man in 
his own white purity, he follows him through his red, black 
and pale career, through the atonement, to the wedding feast 
of the Lamb and his bride, the church, where we find them all 
once more arrayed in white. 

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CREATION. TIME AND ETERNITY 



In the following diagram we give the seven ages of the 
cycle of time, showing the seven seals in their order from 
creation to the full consummation of the age. We ask the 
reader to use this with the opening of each seal, and follow 
with care in its study, the scriptures that are assigned to 
each. 

Diagram No. 19. 



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Yet he unfolds and leads this white-robed band on unto 
ultimate triumphant victory, and finishes the Revelation on 
the threshold of eternity itself. 

We have the white horse then in the first seal. White is 
the emblem of purity everywhere in the Bible. See Rev. 3: 



REVELATION 241 

18; 3 : 4; 7: 13. The rider had a bow. As the sword was the 
instrument and emblem of war, so is the bow the instrument 
and emblem of man's conquest over the beasts of the earth. 
He wore a crown, signifying his authority as a king. He 
came forth conquering and to conquer. All of these symbols 
are fully true in man as he came fresh from his Makers 
hands. God made man in his own image and likeness, pure, 
holy and righteous. He put a crown upon his head when he 
gave him " dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the 
earth." Gen. 1 : 26. He sent him forth " conquering and to 
conquer," when he told him " to be fruitful, and multiply, 
and replenish the earth ; and subdue it, and have dominion 
over it." Gen. 1 : 28. And when he had finished all his 
works, " God saw everything he had made, and, behold, it was 
very good." It was white, as we find it in the first seal, and 
man was its lord, with power and authority for the work be- 
fore him. 

At the fulness of time the Father sent Jesus into the world 
to reinstate man to his God and give back his birthright which 
he had lost through sin. He has given us assurance that 
" Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." 
Isa. 1 : 18. The writer of Hebrews also speaks of the first 
man, and transfers the description to Jesus, on this wise: 
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of 
man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower 
than the angels : Thou crownedst him with glory and honor, 
and didst set him over the works of thy hands : Thou didst 
put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he sub- 
jected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject 
to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected unto him. 
But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than 
the angels, even JESUS, because of the suffering of death 



242 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God 
he should taste death for every man." Heb. 2 : 6-9. 

This shows Jesus as the one who is to .make man white 
again and restore to him (not in type, as the beginning was 
the temporal only) this true birthright of dominion, power 
and glory. " I give unto you all power," Jesus says. " And 
I saw heaven opened ; and behold, a white horse, and he that 
sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in. righteousness 
he doth judge and make war. And his eyes are a flame of 
fire, and upon his head are many diadems [crowns] : . . . 
And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white 
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. And out of his 
mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should 
smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : 
And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath 
of God, the Almighty. And he hath on his garment and on 
his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD 
OF LORDS." Rev. 19: 11-16. 

H'ere we have the second advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
the same as in the sixth seal, or at its latter or closing part. 
(This will be fully shown in that seal.) And we find what is 
absolutely true in all the Bible, that what was lost in the 
first Adam, though only a temporal type) is fully restored to 
the faithful in Christ. In the scripture quoted, we have the 
rider and white horse, with an army of riders with white 
horses, all arrayed in white: and they are going forth con- 
quering and to conquer. 

This first seal represents Adam and his mission, and he 
begins his work in white. Cain for his sin is banished, and 
Seth becomes the heir to the human inheritance. Under the 
first one thousand years, we have the rule of Adam, Seth and 
Enoch ; and as noted on the margin of diagram No. 19, the 
translation of Enoch closes this first one thousand years. 
Adam and Seth die about the same time, and thus closes the 



REVELATION 243 

rule of these three godly patriarchs. Jude, in his epistle, 
tells of Enoch prophesying of the destruction of these wicked 
Antediluvians. Jude 14. 

OPENING OF THE SECOND SEAL. 

" And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the 
second living creature saying, Come. And another horse 
came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was 
given to take peace from the earth, and that they should 
slay one another: and there was given unto him a great 
sword." Rev. 6: 3, 4. 

The one thousand years of this seal cover the history of man 
from the translation of Enoch to the entrance of Abraham 
into the promised land. Gen. 5: 21-24 and Gen. 12: 1-5. 
This is the bloody period of the antediluvian world. The em- 
blem this time is a red horse, in the opening of the second 
seal. This is the emblem of bloodshed and violence, such 
as were the characteristics of this period. " And the earth 
was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with vio- 
lence. And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ; 
all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth." Gen. 6: 
11-12. 

When Cain was driven out from the presence of God, *he 
with his family left and dwelt in the land of Nod, or Wander- 
ing. Here they multiplied and built a city, Gen. 4: 16, 17, 
and for a period of about 1,600 years, continued to spread 
abroad and grow in number and violence until the earth was 
filled with them and their murderous offspring. Cain, their 
father, was a murderer, and Lamech had a like record. La- 
mech's son Tubal-cain was the sword-maker. Gen. 4 : 22. And 
his father Lamech declared that if Cain should be avenged 

*The question as to where Cain got his wife, admits of but 
one answer. He married his sister, as all they of the first genera- 
tion did. This custom was often practiced even as late as Abra- 
ham's time. See Gen. 20: 12. 



244 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

sevenfold, " Truly Lamech seventy and seven fold." This 
would be 490 times. Truly, this is enough to give us a glimpse 
into the bloodthirsty, degenerated condition of these monster 
descendants of Cain. Tubal-cain was the seventh from Adam 
the same as Enoch who' was translated ; and this Tubal-cain 
is the mian who " was the forger of every cutting instrument 
of brass and iron," — the sword-maker. Here is the second 
seal's fulfillment. The rider of the red horse, with the great 
sword, had power to " take peace from the earth, and that they 
should slay one another." 

The first beast, or living creature, was like a lion. Rev. 
4: 7. The lion is the king of beasts. So was man king of 
creation in his virgin strength and purity. Jesus, who will 
with his redeemed ones complete the conquest of this world, 
is called " The Lion of the tribe of Judah." Rev. 5 : 5. Here 
type meets antitype in this also. 

The second living creature was like a calf. Rev. 4 : 7. This 
is the one that said, Come, when the second seal was opened. 
The ox or calf (different translations use either term) is the 
animal of slaughter, and was used as a sin offering all through 
the ages of types. This is indeed a fit type for this age of 
bloodshed, and ended in their own lives being offered in the 
mighty flood, as a penalty for their sias. 



CHAPTER 27. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

Opening of the Third Seal — Its Interpretation — Opening of the 
Fourth Seal — Its Interpretation — The Awfulness of Its Fulfill- 
ment. 

OPENING OF THE THIRD SEAL. REV. 6: 5-6. 

" And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third 
living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a 
black horse ; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand. 
And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four liv- 
ing creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and 
three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the 
wine hurt thou not." The events of this age follow in the 
next thousand years, beginning with the call of Abraham, or 
rather with his entrance into the promised land, and end- 
ing with the full establishing of the empire under Solomon, 
or rather with the dedication of the temple under King Solo- 
mon. This event marks the high tide of Israel's spiritual 
prosperity, and a rapid decline followed this. 

This is the great age of the type church. First, we notice 
the third living creature. Rev. 4:7. " And the third creature 
had a face as of a man." Truly a type worthy of the man 
that stands at the head of this period, faithful old Abraham, 
" The friend of God." Abraham himself is a true type of 
God, Isaac of Jesus, and Jacob of the Holy Spirit, who begets 
the twelve tribes of Israel ; and they the type of the twelve 
apostles of the church of Jesus Christ. 

The horse of this seal is black. This is an emblem of 
mourning and distress. The rider had a pair of balances 
in his hands, indicating that great care was exercised in deal- 

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246 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

ing out substance. A voice from the throne said : " A measure 
of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a 
shilling : and the oil and the wine hurt thou not." The exorbi- 
tant price stated for wheat and barley are famine prices, and 
would probably amount to $30.00 per bushel for the wheat, 
and $10.00 for barley, if reduced to the purchasing value of 
our modern currency. The last named articles, oil and wine, 
seemed still scarcer. 

Let us now look at the events of this period and see if we 
find in God's people this emblematical figure fulfilled. " By 
faith Abraham became a sojourner in the land of promise, as 
in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, 
the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for the 
city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker 
is God." Heb. 11:9, 10. This is the beginning of this period 
of trials briefly stated. 

These worthy old patriarchs suffered much, and were often 
driven from place to place, by their enemies, and by famine. 
God showed Abraham in a vision also what would happen to 
his posterity. " And when the sun was going down, a deep 
sleep fell upon Abram ; and, lo, a horror of great darkness 
fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety 
that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, 
and shall serve them ; and they shall afflict them four hun- 
dred years." Gen. 15 : 12, 13. Famine drove Jacob into Egypt 
and this prophecy was literally fulfilled upon the descendants 
of Abrahami. 

The ten plagues upon Egypt and the destruction of the 
Egyptians at the Red Sea were followed by the forty years' 
wandering in the wilderness. Here then we have famine, 
slavery, plagues, and wanderings, and homesickness, the true 
meaning of the black horse, and the rider with his balances. 
Following the wanderings of Israel for forty years, we have 
the rule of the judges and the oft-repeated punishments of 



REVELATION 247 

Israel for their sins, their internal strife, backslidings and 
idolatry. 

While studying these emblematical types of the ages, we 
must ever remember that we have God's side, and God's peo- 
ple, always to reckon with, as well as the human, historical 
side of it. This age closes with the disastrous forty years' 
reign of King Saul ; the reconquering of the land by David, 
and his victorious but troublous forty years' reign ; and the 
peaceful forty years' reign of Solomon. Three forty years' 
reigns. (See types.) Brief as these symbols are, in them is 
the history of the ages of three thousand years most beautifully 
depicted. Each seal as we advance becomes more full and 
clear and easy to be understood. 

OPENING OF THE FOURTH SEAL. REV. 6 I 7, 8. 

" And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice 
of the fourth living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and 
behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him., his name 
was Death ; and Hades followed with him. And there was 
given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, 
to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by 
the wild beasts of the earth." This is the last of the four 
beasts, and covers the last thousand years before the Christian 
era begins, — from Solomon to the birth of Christ. This is 
the period of the four great empires, which was so graphically 
portrayed to Daniel in the form, first, of the great image that 
King Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. Dan. 2 : 36-45. A 
second time it was revealed to Daniel in the form of four 
beasts. Dan. 7: 4-8. It is also carefully explained to Daniel, 
in the seventh, eighth and ninth chapters, and is quite easy 
to understand in the light of the history of that age. 

The first of the beasts is the lion with eagle's wings. This 
represents the Babylonian empire, which ruled the fourth 
part of the earth. Dan. 7:4; 2 : 37, 37. He was the king of 
kings at his time, strong as a lion, swift as an eagle ; this is 



248 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

his type. His pride was plucked from him and a real man 
made out of him. Dan. 4. The second beast was like a 
bear. This was the Medo-Persian empire, which succeeded 
the Babylonian empire. (See the same scriptures.) The third 
beast was like a leopard. Dan. 7: 6. This is the Greek em- 
pire, under Alexander the Great, and the four heads are the 
divided kingdom after his death among his four generals. 
The fourth beast was exceedingly strong and powerful, with 
great iron teeth, and destroyed all the other beasts. This is 
the Roman power, and was the ruling power on earth at the 
close of this, the fourth seal. (Compare Daniel with Mac- 
cabees and Josephus.) 

These four beasts represent four great powers or king- 
doms and are easily understood, thus furnishing a clear rule 
of interpretation. But the four beasts of the four seals of 
Revelation are entirely different from these, and represent 
God's side, as they were with him in his throne, and give not 
a clue to a specific earthly kingdom,, but a general symbolical 
clue to the conditions prevailing during the period which they 
represent. 

" The fourth creature was like a flying eagle." Rev. 4 : 7. 
Daniel used the same emblem in the first beast with which 
this era opens, that is, his lion had eagle's wings. The eagle 
is known as the king of birds, travels swiftly and far in search 
of its prey: this is true of this age and all of its world con- 
quest in these ruling powers. The pale horse is the emblem 
of death. His rider's name was Death, and Hell followed 
after him, reaping a rich harvest of human beings. All flesh 
had utterly corrupted itself; even God's people at Jerusalem 
were led to their ruin by the oppression and idolatry that were 
introduced by King Solomon, and went from bad to> worse 
until their whole country was laid waste by the sword and 
famine and captivity. Jeremiah takes the cup of God's wrath 
and fury to all the nations end makes them to drink of it, 



REVELATION 249 

beginning with Jerusalem. Every nation in existence had 
to drink of the cup of God's wrath. Babylon was to be 
utterly annihilated. All the nations fell during this period 
and perished except Rome, which was reserved till later. Jere- 
miah gives this in graphic language. Jer. 25. 

" And by the wild beasts of the earth," was the last-men- 
tioned way that was to be used for human destruction. After 
the conquest of all the Eastern empire by Alexander the Great, 
King of Greece, he brought with him from India many ele- 
phants, which for the first time were introduced into war- 
fare among the Greeks and used against the people of God in 
Palestine. Thus was literally fulfilled this part of the em- 
blematic vision of John also. 

Briefly summed up, then, we have Solomon's idolatry ; the 
divided kingdom; the captivity of the ten tribes; captivity of 
Judah, and complete overthrow of the Jews ; their return, 
and their land held as a foreign province ; the Maccabean inde- 
pendence ; the Greek supremacy ; and last the Roman ascend- 
ancy. We also have the complete destruction of the Baby- 
lonian Empire, the great Egyptian Empire, the Medo-Persian 
Empire, the overthrow of the Greek Empire, the annihilation 
of Phoenicia, Sidon, Philistia, Moab and Ammon, Assyria and 
Syria, with all the petty enemies of the Jews. The wickedness 
of this period was perhaps equal to anything that ever existed 
upon the face of the earth, and God deliberately sends forth 
the Pale Horse with his rider of Death, to exterminate and 
destroy, with the swiftness of a flying eagle, the ungodly na- 
tions. The scene of devastation is closed by the complete 
destruction of the Jewish people A. D. 70. 

" I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, 
even determined upon the whole earth." Isaiah 28: 22. 



CHAPTER 28. 
Revelation. — Continued. 

Opening of the Fifth Seal — The Christian Martyrs — The White 
Robes Again — The Dark Ages of Persecution — The Beast and 
False Prophet — The Fifth Seal the Beginning of the First 
Resurrection — The Church in the Wilderness — To the Casting 
Out of Satan. 

OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL. REV. 6:9-11. 

" And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the 
altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of 
God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried 
with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and 
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 
that dwell on the earth? And there was given them to each 
one a white robe ; and it was said unto them, that they should 
rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and 
their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should 
have fulfilled their course." 

This seal represents the first one thousand years of the 
Christian era. The scene is transferred from the going forth 
of the conquering horse and his rider, to heaven, where the 
redeemed are gathering under the altar of God. 

The cry that goes up to God is the cry of martyrs. The 
question they ask is for our information, and is fully an- 
swered. " How long will it be until you will judge the world 
of wicked people that are killing thy servants on the earth ? " 
is the question they ask. The first thing, they get white 
robes, — the emblem of their purity, as at the beginning when 
the white horse went forth. Next they were told to rest yet 
a little time, until their brethren and fellow-servants that 

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252 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. So we know 
that they are still resting under the altar of God, as the mar- 
tyrs are still being slain, and the missionaries are still busy 
carrying the Gospel unto the uttermost parts of the earth, 
and the Master has not yet come. 

We will find them again in the next seal (Rev. 7: 14), 
when and where we will more fully notice them in their place. 
On the diagram it will be seen that this age extends from the 
birth of Jesus to the fall of Satan from heaven, or to the 
middle of the dark ages, A. D. 1000. Revelation 12th, 13th 
and 14th chapters belong (that is, their events) to the fifth 
and sixth seals. A careful Bible student will readily see this. 
Other parts later in the book do also, and will be referred to 
as used. Let us briefly notice chapter 12: 1-17. 

This chapter belongs almost entirely to the fifth seal, the 
one we are now considering. 1st. A great sign in heaven. V. 
1, 2. The woman is the church. She was clothed with the 
sun, the greatest light we have, — Jesus', or God's power and 
authority. The moon was under her feet ; the moon has only 
a light borrowed from the sun and stands for the earth, the 
place of Jesus' church. On her head was a crown of twelve 
stars : the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles of 
the Lamb which are to rule them. 

" And there was seen another sign in heaven ; and behold 
a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and 
upon his head seven diadems." V. 3. This dragon is the 
same beast of ch. 13: 1, and is more fully described in the 
17th chapter. It is also the fourth terrible beast of Daniel 
7: 7, and the fourth kingdom of the great image of Nebu- 
chadnezzar's dream. The man child is the little stone that 
was cut out without hands which would break in pieces and 
overcome all these other kingdoms. This great red dragon is 
the Roman power, which was in its full strength at the birth 
of Jesus. He stood before the woman ready to destroy her 



REVELATION 253 

child as soon as it was born. This was Herod, the king of 
Judea, at the time of Jesus' birth. When the wise men came 
to worship Jesus, he tried to kill him, and slew all the young 
male children at Bethlehem in his rage and fury, but failed in 
his purpose. Herod represents the great red dragon or Roman 
power, as he was a Roman king. " And she was delivered 
of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod 
of iron : and her child was caught up unto God, and unto 
his throne." Rev. 12: 5. This clearly is Jesus. 

The dragon's kingdom is what the devil offered Jesus when 
he tempted him. Matt. 4. He stood at the head of that king- 
dom as its ruling power in the spirit world, and as such we 
must ever understand and interpret the Bible. 

" And there was war in heaven." V. 6. We found Satan, 
the old red dragon, in the Garden of Eden in the beginning. 
The Garden of Eden is a type of heaven. He was successful 
in the garden, but the promise went forth there that his 
head should be bruised. And here we have him cast out of 
heaven as the first great downfall, and he takes up his work 
of fierce persecution here on earth. Rev. 12: 10-17. "Woe 
for the earth and for the sea : because the devil is gone down 
unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a 
short time." V. 12. 

Of all the times in the history of the church never was per- 
secution more fiercely and relentlessly waged by both old Pa- 
pal Rome and the Mohammedan hordes ; which is the second 
great beast of Revelation, and the False Prophet. To be a 
Mohammedan was to be slain by Rome, and to be a fol- 
lower of Papal Rome was to be slain by the Mohammedans ; 
while to be a Christian was to be slain by both of them. When 
Rome was at her best (Rev. 13th chapter), the cross, or some 
other like mark was worn on the forehead or hand by her 
devotees ; and all that refused to do so were branded as here- 
tics, and were outlawed, persecuted, driven into exile or killed 



254 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

outright, and their property confiscated. This was the mark 
of the beast. Rev. 13: 16. How literally true the fulfilling 
of the casting out into the earth of Satan is, may thus be 
easily seen. What was compulsory then, has become popu- 
lar now with many who still worship the beast or his image, 
and do so voluntarily before his teachers. 

THE FIFTH SEAL, THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 

Two things in the fifth seal are self-evident. First, that 
the slain martyrs are in heaven, and are gathering there as 
fast as they leave their earthly tabernacles. And second, 
that they are staying there in a place of rest until all are 
gathered home. This was the answer to their questions as 
to how long it would be before judgment would be meted out 
to those who persecuted them. Paul also gives this a clear 
answer. " And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the 
revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels 
of his power in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them 
that know not God, and to them that obey not the Gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ : who shall suffer punishment, even eter- 
nal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory 
of his might, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints." 
2 Thess. 1 : 7-10. Then they are to wait until he comes the 
second time to earth. 

The Bible on the question of the resurrection of the dead is 
very clear, though much confusion has been made by some 
on this doctrine, so dear to every faithful believer in Christ. 
That there are two resurrections of the dead is clear. " Blessed 
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection : over 
these the second death has no power ; but they shall be priests 
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand 
years." Rev. 20: 6. "But the rest of the dead lived not 
until the thousand years should be finished." V. 5. Then 
these in the fifth seal are among the blessed and holy. This is 



REVELATION 255 

entirely clear, we think. Now may we notice the concluding 
proofs of the first resurrection. 
Jesus said, — 

" I am the resurrection, and the life : he that believeth on 
me, though he die, yet shall he live ; and whosoever liveth and 
believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?" John 
11:25-26. 

" Shall never die." If we are really born of the spirit of 
Jesus Christ, we will change at the death of the body, but 
will be at rest with the white-robed throng under the altar of 
God. " But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the 
firstfruits of them that are asleep." 1 Cor. 15: 20. Here is 
the antitype of the wave sheaf (see diagram on type of same). 
After the wave sheaf was offered they continued to use all the 
grain they desired until the final harvest ; that would end all. 
" But each in his own order : Christ the firstfruits ; then they 
that are his at his coming." 1 Cor. 15: 23. That is, the oth- 
ers that have no part in the first resurrection are excluded from 
the resurrection until after his second coming, or until the 
final judgment. See Rev. 20: 5, 12-15. 

If further evidence is needed, in support of the doctrine of 
the first resurrection being at once, and continuous to the 
second coming, we have it in the following scripture: " And 
Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. 
And toehold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the 
top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake ; and the rocks were 
rent ; and the tombs were opened ; and many bodies of the 
saints that had fallen asleep were raised; and coming forth 
out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the 
holy city and appeared unto many." Matt. 27 : 50-53. This 
is conclusive. While there are other scriptures that might be 
differently construed, yet, when like these they are properly 
placed in their respective ages and times, they will be per- 
fectly in harmony with every other part. The rich man and 
Lazarus should be interpreted in this light: Lazarus a saint, 



256 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

having part at once in Paradise after his death ; while the rich 
man, who was a Jew, and a reprobate, was at once put into 
his prison-house of hell, until the final judgment. Rev. 20. 
13-15. (See the final judgment, closing chapter.) 

The martyr Stephen, while he was being stoned to death by 
his persecutors, saw heaven opened and Jesus standing on the 
right hand of God ; his dying prayer was, " Lord Jesus, receive 
my spirit." Acts 7 : 55-60. And he did ; and the first Chris- 
tian martyr took his place under the altar, with the white- 
robed host, there to await with joy his Lord's return to earth, 
to live and reign with him a thousand years. 

This fifth seal is essentially the time of "The Church in 
the wilderness." " And the woman fled into the wilderness, 
where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may 
nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days." 
Rev. 12: 6. The woman is the church, and she was a scat- 
tered and dispersed church for 1,260 years. At that time the 
great reformation began and the real spiritual church came 
once more to the front. In Rev. 10: 8; 11: 1-13, is an inter- 
ruption from the seventh seal, and a special message to John 
aside from what was being written for the seventh seal. The 
two witnesses are here spoken of in verse 3, chapter 11. They 
were to prophesy 1,260 years, clothed in sackcloth. These 
have been noticed elsewhere in this work; but we call atten- 
tion to the fact that it is the same time as that during which the 
church is in the wilderness. And it is the time of hiding of 
the Word of God. The Old and New Testaments, the two 
witnesses, were destroyed and the death penalty meted out to 
those who dared to have and read them, for a portion of the 
>ater part of this period. After the 1,260 years this power 
began to vanish rapid'y- and the two witnesses, the Bible, 
came out of their hiding again. 



CHAPTER 29. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

Opening of the Sixth Seal — The Last Decade of the Rule of Satan 
— The Second Coming of Christ — Signs of His Coming — Learn 
the Parable of the Fig-tree — The Return of the Jews to 
Palestine — The Declaration of Prophecy Full on This — Jesus' 
Promise to the Twelve Apostles — Ezekiel, Jesus and Paul on 
the Return of the Jews to Palestine. 

THE OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAL. 

With the opening of the sixth seal, we come to the last 
working day of this world under the mortal dispensation. 
The thousand years from the middle of the dark ages, or 
casting out of Satan from heaven, until our Lord's return 
to earth, and the casting out of Satan from the earth, marks 
this period. 

The work of this seal is quite full, and easily located, be- 
cause so fully stated, and the many other scriptures that il- 
lumine it. It would require a volume within itself to contain 
them and their work: enough will be given here clearly to 
locate the principal work of this period, and fully reveal the 
handiwork of God in his revelation to man. This seal, like 
all the preceding ones, gives only the great predominating 
power and work of its period, but much fuller and clearer. 
In fact, this seal and the one still to follow clearly place them 
all, in point of time and duration as well as to a certainty of 
the stated facts. The first were hid in four symbols, but the 
last three are clear statements of revealed truths, abundantly 
testified to throughout the Bible. The opening of each seal 
gives us a full glimpse of its completed work, and is a sum- 
ming up of it as a whole. This sixth seal is the harvest time, 
the Feast of Tabernacles. (See types and cycles of time.) 

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No more graphic picture of the Lord's return to earth is 
in the Bible than we have here. From Rev. 6: 12, to the 
conclusion of the seventh chapter, is a clear statement of his 
return, and the gathering of the saints. The one thing needful 
to a clear understanding of those events, is to* place them in 
their orderly occurrence : this we are able to do with the help 
of the many other scriptures bearing upon this same subject. 
Many of our Lord's parables refer to his second coming. The 
ten virgins, the talents, parable of the judgment, in Matt. 25, 
are among the notable ones. We quote from the first part of 
the events of this seal. 

" And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was 
a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth 
of hair, and the whole moon became as blood ; and the stars 
of the heaven fell upon the earth, as a fig tree casteth her 
unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. And the 
heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up ; and every 
mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the 
kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and 
the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, 
hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains ; 
and they say to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on us, and 
hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and 
from the wrath of the Lamb : for the great day of their wrath 
is come; and who is able to stand?" Rev. 6: 12-17. 

Now let us compare this with Jesus' own statement and we 
will make doubly sure of our ground. " But immediately after 
the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and 
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from 
heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken : and 
then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see 
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power 
and great glory. And he shall send forth his angels with a 
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^lect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the oth- 
er." Matt. 24: 29-31. This is Jesus' own language while 
yet on earth, and is substantially the same as that in the open- 
ing of the sixth seal. 

This is perfectly clear, unless it were the locating of the 
time of his coming. The proofs of that have been presented 
complete in the types and in the cycles of time. Not one has 
failed in the past to be fully carried out in the minutest detail, 
as has been carefully shown in that part of this work, and 
none will fail in what is yet to come. But Jesus says : " Of 
that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of 
heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only." Matt. 24: 36. 
Even the date of the ibirth of Jesus is not known to the day 
or to the hour to any mortal, and the year is doubtful ; how 
much more such an event as his second coming? But on the 
other hand Jesus tells us very plainly when we may know that 
the time is almost here. 

" Now from the fig tree learn her parable : when her branch 
is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know 
that the summer is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see all these 
things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors." Matt. 
24: 32, 33. The statement in the verse following the above, 
that that generation should not pass away, primarily alluded 
to the destruction of Jerusalem ; but finally to his second com- 
ing also ; as the word generation is used all through the Bible 
in the twofold sense. First to the people then existing, second 
to a nation of people. The Jews are still a nation of people, 
and are a part of the sure sign, for they will return again to 
their native land at this time. 

SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 

" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole 
world for a testimony unto all the nations ; and then shall the 
end come." Matt. 24: 14. That this is rapidly being done no 
one who at all keeps abreast of the mighty missionary move- 



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ment of the last decade can for one moment doubt. Scarcely a 
vessel leaves the shores of any of the great civilized nations but 
it has aboard missionaries for the foreign fields. Bibles by the 
millions are sent out yearly. The two witnesses of God are no 
longer wearing sackcloth, but are on both feet and proclaiming 
unto the uttermost parts of the earth the glad tidings. Acts 
1 : 8. The Bible is now printed in over 400 different tongues 
and dialects. Every. country on earth is now open for the mis- 
sionary and the Bible, whereas less than a lifetime ago one-half 
of the countries on the face of the earth were to all intents and 
purposes closed to the evangelical missionary and his Book, 
the Bible. In the year 1909 Bible societies printed and circu- 
lated 11,378,854 Bibles. More Bibles were sold than any other 
hundred books together. The annual output is steadily in- 
creasing. If you would put on a single pile all the religious 
books of all the heathen nations in the world, including the 
Koran of Mahomet, with all that now are in existence or ever 
were, and add thereto one hundred of the most famous modern 
books, the pile in comparison to the millions of Bibles that 
have been sent out would be like an ant heap by the side of Mt. 
Everest. 

According to the cycles of time, and the best genealogical 
record we have in the Bible itself, we have about eighty-five 
years yet until the 6,000 years are full. Yet we do> not even 
know the year definitely at all, to say nothing of the "day or 
hour." But Jesus tells us to learn the parable of the fig tree. 
May we do so and be the wiser for it. 

THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO THEIR PROMISED LAND. 

"And they [the Jews] shall fall by the edge of the sword, 
and shall be led captive into all nations ; and Jerusalem shall 
be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles 
be fulfilled." Luke 21 : 24. 

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tells us of the destruction of the Jewish nation, and that Jerusa- 
lem should remain in the hands of the Gentiles until their time 
would be full. Jerusalem has been in the hands of foreigners 
ever since it was overthrown by the Romans A. D. 70. " The 
abomination that maketh desolate" (Matt. 24: 15 ; Dan. 9: 27) 
has held full sway ever since. Yet now this seems to be rapidly 
coming to a close. 

The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ that has been taught 
to the young Turks has done its work. They have overthrown 
the old Turkish rule, and have declared religious freedom. 
The Jew has been permitted again to revisit the temple site 
within the last year. And they are rapidly returning and buy- 
ing up their old homes. As a people they have the wealth to 
buy it all and rebuild it again. Foreign interest will ere long 
provide an ample protection for them. Yet if it is God's time 
he will bring them home ; if not, they will have to wait. 

Ezekiel gives the most positive prophetic testimony of their 
return again. " And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord 
Jehovah : Behold, I will take the children of Israel from 
among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather 
them on every side, and bring them unto their own land: 
and I will miake them one nation in the land, upon the moun- 
tains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all ; and 
they shall be no more two nations ; neither shall they be divided 
into two kingdoms any more at all ; . . . . And my servant 
David shall be king over them ; and they all shall have one 
shepherd : they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe 
my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land 
that I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt ; 
and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children's children, 
for ever : and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. 
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them ; it shall 
be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, 
and set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My 



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tabernacle shall also be with them; and I will be their God, 
and they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that 
I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall 
be in the midst of them for evermore." Ezek. 37: 21-28. 

This prophecy has never yet been fulfilled. That it means 
literally what it says is in full accord with the words of Jesus 
already quoted ; not only so, but it is repeated by Ezek. in 34 : 
22-31 ; 36. They are to be fully restored and that forever, with 
Christ as their King. Jesus fully confirms this himself in his 
promise to the twelve apostles who were to be the head of the 
twelve tribes when he came to' earth again. " Then answered 
Peter and said unto him, lo, we have left all, and followed thee ; 
what then shall we have? And Jesus said unto them, Verily 
I say unto you, that ye who' have followed me, in the regenera- 
tion when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, 
ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes 
of Israel." Matt. 19: 27, 28. 

This promise is to be fulfilled to them at his second coming, 
as clearly stated above, and is the fulfillment of what we have 
quoted from the prophecies of Ezekiel. The same event is re- 
ferred to again by the Revelator, and much additional informa- 
tion given in Rev. 20 : 4. " And I saw thrones, and they sat 
upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw 
the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of 
Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshiped not 
the beast, neither his image, and received not his mark upon 
their forehead and upon their hand ; and they lived and reigned 
with Christ a thousand years." This thousand years is the 
seventh and last seal, and the sabbath day of the world in which 
Satan is bound. We call special attention to the preparatory 
state for this at the second coming of Jesus Christ with the 
twelve apostles and all his hosts to reign. 

Paul warns his Gentile brethren about their boasting against 
the Jews who apparently were cast of! by God, and shows 



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clearly that because of their works it became necessary to do 
so, until the full purpose of God was accomplished, in bringing 
the whole human family together. Rom. 9, 10 and 11. He 
also clearly shows the final restoration of the Jews again. 
" For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, 
lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part 
hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come 
in ; and so all Israel shall be saved : even as it is written, 
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer ; He shall turn away 
ungodliness f rom Jacob : And this is my covenant with them, 
when I shall take away their sins." Rom. 11 : 25-28. 

The fullness of the Gentiles here referred to is that the 
gospel of Jesus Christ must be first preached to all the world 
as a witness against them and then would the end of the age 
come, as our Lord said in Matt. 24: 14. But as we have seen 
in all the types and cycles of time, all of God's work is always 
fully carried out in the appointed time. Man may and does 
fail, but we might just as well argue that the day or year 
would change to suit man as to reason that any human beings 
could alter the decree which the Father hath finished from 
the foundations of earth. The only loss is to the one that fails 
to do the work God has given him to do ; the work will and 
must go on and be finished in the appointed time. 



CHAPTER 30. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

Opening of the Sixth Seal (Continued) — Manner of Jesus' Second 
Coming — The Reapers — Harvest Time — Work of the Angels — 
The 144,000— The Bride the Lamb's Wife— Many Parables, 
Types and Prophecies Fulfilled in This Seal — The Antitypes of 
the Feast of Tabernacles — Realization of the Glorious Fulfill- 
ment of Jesus' Promises in This Seal. 

We now return to notice the beginning of this work again, 
namely, the manner of Jesus' coming, purpose, and work. 
" Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall see him, 
and they that pierced him-; and all the tribes of the earth shall 
mourn over him. Even so, Amen." Rev. 1:7. As to his 
definite manner of coming, this states it clearly and admits of 
no changing. Even the very men that crucified him will have 
to witness the awful grandeur of his triumphant entrance into 
this world, and they, with all the wicked, will seek to hide; 
their terror shall know no bounds. This will be a time of the 
rendering of judgment, when the division of Matt. 25:31-45 
will take place. But it is not the final judgment of Rev. 20. 
This must be clearly kept in mind, that there will be another 
and final judgment after the thousand years' reign of Christ. 
Verse 46 of MJatt. 25 says that " These shall go away into 
eternal punishment : but the righteous unto eternal life." Here 
the wicked are not killed but put into their prison-house of 
hell, awaiting the final doom of Rev. 20: 14-15. And the 
righteous share the fiat of Rev. 20. 6. 

THE WORK OF THE REAPERS. 

Let us hear again the verdict of the parable of the tares: 
" As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire ; 

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so shall it be in the end of the age. The Son of man shall 
send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom 
all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity and 
shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the 
weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous 
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that 
hath ears, let him hear." Matt. 13: 40-43. 

Here we have the mission of the angels clearly stated as 
the reapers of the harvest of both good and bad. Matt. 24: 31 
states the same, and in the sixth seal this is fully brought out. 
" After this [what had taken place in the first part of the open- 
ing of the seal] I saw four angels standing at the four corners 
of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no> wind 
should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree. And 
I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the 
seal of the living God : and he cried with a great voice to the 
four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 
saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till 
we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. 
And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred 
and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the 
children of Israel After these things I saw, and be- 
hold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of 
every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing 
before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, 
and palms in their hands." Rev. 7: 1-9. Here we have the 
gathered hosts of God at the second coming of Christ, and the 
first are the hundred and forty-four thousand. 

This event is often referred to in the Scriptures, but we will 
refer to only a few passages more. " Then shall two men be in 
the field ; one is taken, and one is left : two women shall be 
grinding at the mill ; one is taken, and one is left." Matt. 24 : 
10. This is again the same event, the gathering of the host of 
Christ's redeemed at his coming. Wherever a Christian is 



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found the angels will gather him up. Matt. 24:31; 1 Thess. 
4: 13-17. Many are the strange interpretations placed upon 
the sealing of the twelve thousand ; may we not let the Book 
answer this also? As already stated, Rev. 12, 13, and 14 are 
all events that belong to the fifth and sixth seals ; the 14th 
chapter is the preparation for his coming, from v. 1-13, and the 
14th is his advent. Then again follows the work of the reaper 
angels in verses 15-20. In the first of the 14th chapter we 
have the hundred and forty-four thousand clearly set forth as 
Jesus' own guard of honor, -the choir of heaven, following the 
Lamb whithersoever he goeth, pure, spotless and faultless. 

THE BRIDE, THE LAMB'S WIFE I THE LAST SCENE. 

In this seal was the innumerable host which could not be 
numbered, from every nation under the sun. The same we 
found in the previous seal, w!k> were told to wait yet for a 
little season. That time is now up, and their deliverance has 
come. They had been persecuted on earth, but now " they 
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; neither shall 
the sun strike upon them, or any heat ; for the Lamb that is in 
the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide 
them unto fountains of waters of life : and God shall wipe away 
every tear from their eyes." Rev. 7: 13-17. 

This scene is repeatedly given in the Bible. Daniel gives us 
a graphic picture of it. Dan. 7 : 9-22. Jesus gives us the 
picture of this scene in various forms in his parables. The 
white-robed throng which John saw standing on a sea of 
glass mingled with fire, in Rev. 15, is the same people, time 
and place as the ones in the sixth seal, for it is only another 
description of the same event, adding some thoughts to it. 
The Revelator has indeed covered the last three seals or peri- 
ods of time from the first advent of Christ to the closing of 
the millennium, in part, from one to three times ; but none are 
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Christ and the gathering together unto him of all the saints of 
all the ages. 

The Revelator's last account of the second advent of Christ 
with his host of redeemed ones is found in the 19th chapter, 
and continues to the end of the book through an unbroken 
narrative to the end of time. We quote from the first part, 
while the part belonging to the seventh and last seal will be 
noticed under that heading. Compare the following passage 
with 7:9 and 15:2-4: 

" After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a 
great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and 
glory, and power belong to our God; for true and righteous 
are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her 
that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath 
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And a second 
time they say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goeth up forever 
and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four living 
creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the 
throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah. And a voice came forth 
from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his 
servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great. And I 
heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the 
voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, 
saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, 
reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us 
give the glory unto him : for the MARRIAGE of the LAMB 
is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And it was 
given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, 
bright and pure : for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the 
saints. And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are 
bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith 
unto me, These are the true words of God." Rev. 19:1-9. 

Here we have the wedding ceremony itself, of Christ and 
his church. John has exhausted his language in a few short 



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sentences, trying to describe an indescribable scene, then falls 
down to worship at the feet of the angel, but is rebuked by 
him for so doing, and urged to write. God was more than 
anxious that his saints on earth should have this last message 
from him. Oh, how many has it cheered in their moments of 
hardest trials to know, that there remained a place of rest 
for them with this innumerable host, this white-robed throng, 
which is even now gathering under the altar, waiting the call 
to the marriage feast of the Lamb. 

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON THE SIXTH SEAL. 

This uniting of Jesus and his church at his second coming, 
is the marriage of the king's son. Matt. 22: 1-14. It is the 
time of the parting of the wise and foolish virgins. Matt. 25 : 
1-13. The parable of the talents is fulfilled in this. Matt. 25: 
14-30. And the parting of the righteous from the unrighteous, 
as a shepherd divides the goats from the sheep. Matt. 25: 31- 
46. This is the time spoken of by the prophet Daniel when 
he said, " I beheld, and the same horn made war with the 
saints, and prevailed against them ; until the Ancient of days 
came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most 
High, and the time came that the saints possessed the king- 
dom." Dan. 7:21-22. 

It is the great antitype of the Feast of Tabernacles, which 
lasted seven days (representing a full period of time), and 
was the harvest home feast. It was the joyful feast of the 
season, in which all freely partook of the good things which 
had been dedicated to the Lord. (See chapter on this type.) 
In this glorious event is fulfilled the promise Jesus made to 
his disciples on the last evening of his earthly life, while they 
were in the upper room at Jerusalem. " But ye are they who 
have continued with me in my temptations ; and I appoint unto 
you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me, that ye 
may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom ; and ye shall 



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sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Luke 22: 
28-30. This must have been the thought in Jesus' mind, when 
he said at that last supper, " With desire I have desired to eat 
this passover with you before I suffer ; for I say unto you, I 
shall not eat it, until it be fullfilled in the kingdom of God." 
Luke 22:15-16. "Until" implies that when it, the kingdom 
of God, had come he would eat it again. 

In this, the Lord's supper, we have then a most beautiful and 
striking type of the marriage supper of the Lamb. This was 
the Agape, or feast of love kept by the early Christian church, 
and must have been so understood by them. While the sacra- 
ment, the bread and wine, continually pointed them back to the 
cross of Christ, the Lord's supper pointed them continually 
forward to his second coming. The promise to Abraham, 
" That in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed," 
is literally and marvelously fulfilled in this. For in the open- 
ing of the sixth seal we found that there was an innumerable 
host from every tribe and nation on earth, with white robes and 
palms in their hands, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb. 
When Jesus looks upon this mighty host with joy and glad- 
ness, he will surely say, " I have seen of the travail of my soul 
and am satisfied." Isaiah 53:11. "Even so, Lord Jesus, 
come quickly. Amen." 



CHAPTER 31. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

Opening of the Seventh Seal — The Highly Spiritual Nature of Its 
Work — The Divine and Human Side — Millennium or Thousand 
Years' Reign of Christ and His Saints — The Conquest of 
Christ — Type Meets Antitype — The Great Rebellion — Destruc- 
tion of the Old Beast, and False Prophet — Diagram No. 
Twenty — Map of Palestine in the Time of the Millennium, Ac- 
cording to Ezek. 47: 48 — Satan Chained for the Thousand 
Years — Ezekiel's Account of Christ's Judgment Against the 
Rebellious Nations. 

OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. REV. 8, 9, 10, 11. 

" And when he had opened the seventh seal, there followed 
silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw 
the seven angels that stand before God ; and there were given 
unto them seven trumpets." Rev. 8: 1-2. 

We notice the work of this seal is nearly all stated from the 
Spirit or heaven side of the question, yet enough is given in 
clear, plain revealed things that we may easily know what it is 
and where its work belongs. We have seven angels in this the 
seventh seal, and they were given seven trumpets (verse 2), 
and seven bowls were given unto them filled with the wrath 
of God. Rev. 15:5 to 16: 1-21. Here we have the two ac- 
counts of the seven angels and they should be always so read 
and studied together. Their work in both accounts is just the 
same, only, as in all the scriptures, the one supplements the 
other with additional information. That both accounts close 
the scene is so stated when the seventh angel does his work. 

" And the seventh angel sounded : and there followed great 
voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is 
become the kingdom of our Lord, and his Christ : and he shall 

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reign for ever and ever." Rev. 11:15. This is the first 
statement in the direct account of the seventh seal. The sec- 
ond reads thus : " And the seventh [angel] poured out his 
bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of 
the temple, from the throne, saying, It is done." Rev. 16: 17. 
Following this last account John stops the thread of his con- 
tinuous narrative, and records the destruction of Rome. Rev. 
17 and 18 are devoted entirely to the awful and complete 
destruction of the mother of harlots, Rome and Romanism. 
This is made clear by noting the key explanation as to the 
seat of her power. Rev. 17:9-18. The finale of this will be 
noted later. 

This is the great time of the millennium, or thousand years' 
reign of the saints on earth, spoken of in Rev. 20: 4-6; Dan. 
7: 22; Rev. 2: 26, 27; 5: 10, etc. It will be a time of the 
rule of the saints, instead of the saints being ruled. 

In the seven angels we note the terrible plagues that are to 
be visited on the inhabitants of the earth during this period, 
yet not upon God's children, but upon those who will still be 
disobedient ; vengeance will be swiftly meted out to them. 2 
Thess. 1:8; Rev. 9:4-6; 13-21. Zechariah gives a graphic 
description of the beginning of the work of this day. and the 
closing of the previous one. Zech. 14: 1-21. So do Isaiah 
and Ezekiel. 

THE CONQUEST OF CHRIST. 

Nothing in all the Bible gives us a better insight into the 
coming work of the Lord Jesus Christ than to turn first to the 
true type of what we are studying. The conquest of Canaan 
by Joshua, after the forty years' wandering in the Wilderness 
o<f Sin, is the true type of the second coming of our Lord. And 
as Joshua entered in through the dried-up bed of the Jordan 
and conquered the land by the new generation, so will Jesus 
bring all the redeemed Israelites back again to their own land 
and they will possess it forever, and this will be again the 



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religious capital of the world. We have noted the gathering 
of Israel back to their promised land in the previous seal ; but 
during the last seal or millennium, Christ will rule the nations 
with a rod of iron. Rev. 12:5. There are many scriptures to 
attest to this fact. We quote only enough in all to bring out the 
points, leaving the reader the task to read up the texts in full. 
" And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the 
mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top 
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills [mean- 
ing above all the nations], and all nations shall flow into it. 
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up 
to the mountains of Jehovah, to the house of the God of 
Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in 
his paths : for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the 
word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. And he will judge between 
the nations, and decide concerning many peoples ; and they 
shall beat their swords into' plowshares, and their spears into 
pruning-hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any more." Isa. 2 : 2-4 Here in 
a few words, plain and simple, the prophet has told us the 
who, when and where of the government of our Lord during 
this period: but before his government and rule will be estab- 
lished on earth, there will be a mighty rebellion and uprising 
against him. 

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET. 

This pair of evil spirits each have acquired an immense 
following in the world, and are in perfect league with Satan 
himself. That we have them constantly in our midst is fully 
recognized by every true follower of the Lamb. Again and 
again are we warned in Revelation to avoid them and their 
image or mark, lest we also share their fate. Rev. 15:2; 
14:9-12; 18:4-5. (This organized ecclesiastical power of sin 
alone is entitled to the number 666. Rev. 13: 18.) 



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Diagram No. 20. 




The waters of the Dead Sea will be 
healed. Ezelc. 47: 6-12. 

"OUT OF ZION SHALL GO 
FORTH THE LAW, AND THE 
WORD OF JEHOVAH FROM JE- 
RUSALEM. AND HE WILL JUDGE 
BETWEEN THE NATIONS." Isa. 
2: 2-4; Micah 4: 1-4. 

As Jerusalem was once the religious 
capital of the world, in type, so it will 
be again in reality, according to the 
types and many prophecies. 



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Palestine as it will be divided among the twelve tribes dur- 
ing the reign of a thousand years, from the description given 
by Ezekiel the prophet. Ezek. 47: 13-23; 48: 1-35. This 
includes the description of the double portion of the Holy 
Oblation set apart for the temple service, the priests and the 
prince, or ruling governor. Under King Solomon's forty 
years' reign the empire occupied all this territory, the only 
time in Israel's history; and all the surrounding kingdoms of 
the known world paid tribute to him. This was the great 
prototype of the coming reign of our Lord's kingdom, when 
the saints shall rule. 

Paul definitely locates this worker of iniquity, and says that 
the day of the Lord (meaning his second coming) would not 
come until this falling from the true faith took place, and 
" the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, he that op- 
poseth and exalted himself against all that is called God or 
that is worshiped ; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, 
setting himself forth as God." Thess. 2 : 1-4. The Pope at 
Rome alone has borne this proud distinction. May we follow 
and see his end as the Book gives it. " Whom the Lord Jesus 
shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to naught 
by the manifestation of his coming." 2 Thess. 2 : 8. Here 
Paul tells us he shall be destroyed when Jesus comes.- This is 
one of the live issues of our own day, as we are on the eve 
of this great event, and the mighty hosts are even now being 
marshalled by the prince of darkness and the Prince of Light, 
to contend for the final victory. We quote again : 

" And I saw the heaven opened ; and, behold, a white horse, 
and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True ; and in 
righteousness he doth judge and make war. And his eyes 
are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems ; and 
he hath a name written which no one knoweth but himself. 
And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood : and 
his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which 



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are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine 
linen, white and pure. And out of his mouth proceedeth a 
sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he 
shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the wine- 
press of fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. And 
he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, 
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. . . . And I 
saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, 
gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the 
horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and 
with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his 
sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark 
of the beast and them that worshiped his image: they two 
were cast alive into the lake of fire that burnetii with brim- 
stone : and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat 
upon the horse, even the sword that came forth out of his 
mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh." Rev. 
19:11-21. 

This is plain and clear in the light of what we are here con- 
sidering. Here we have the second advent of Christ, and his 
war with these two evil powers, and his complete victory over 
them. Both were cast into the lake of fire and the kings of the 
earth and all that were deceived by the beast or false prophet, 
or even had his mark or worshiped his image, were destroyed 
by Jesus and his army in white. A strong angel immediately 
lays hold of Satan and puts him into prison for the rest of this 
period of a thousand years, and seals it so that he shall remain 
until the end of the age: when he will be loosed for his last 
final effort, which we will see later. Rev. 20: 1-3. 

The details of this greatest of all battles is still more vivid- 
ly given by Ezekiel, and we will notice it. Also we have the 
same time, place and event stated in a few terse words in Rev. 
14: 17-20, where God's fierce wrath is likened unto a wine- 
press, wherein his enemies are destroyed outside of the Holy 
City. In Zech. 14 we again have a picture of this same event 



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and the care of God for his people and their city. None, how- 
ever, give in detail the vivid and full account of this great 
struggle as does the prophet Ezekiel, in the 38th and 39th 
chapters. We will notice some of the special things which 
he so clearly presents. 

1. — Israel will be fully established in the promised land. — Ezek. 
37: 21-28; 38: 8, 14. 

2. — Their cities and villages will be without walls. — Ezek. 38: 
11. 

3. — The white race will be the leaders in this revolt; four of 
the seven sons of Japheth are named as its principals (meaning 
their descendants): Magog, Gomer, Tubal, and Meshesh. — Ezek. 
38: 1-6. These are the leaders today, and even now are making un- 
precedented preparations for war. 

4. — They will come from the North principally, Europe and 
Asia. Vs. 6, 15. And many people with them. 

5. — It shall come to pass in the latter days (last dispensa- 
tion) vs. 8, 16. 

6. — This is of God, as the destruction of the Egyptians was, 
and as the flood, in order to break the enemy's power and cleanse 
the earth and establish the government of the Lord and his people. 
"Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in 
old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in 
those days for many years that I would bring thee against them? — 
Ezek. 38: 17. 

7. — A mighty host of the enemy. "And thou shalt come up 
against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land: it shall 
come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my 
land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in 
thee, O Gog, before their eyes." — Ezek. 38: 16. 

8. — His destruction. — With a mighty earthquake, every man's 
sword against his brother, with pestilence, with blood and judg- 
ment. "And I will rain upon him and upon his hordes, and upon 
the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and 
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone." — Ezek. 38: 18-23. 

Even the burial place for the invading hordes of Gog, the 
beast and false prophet of Revelation, has been appointed for 
him in the land of Israel on the east of the sea. Ezek. 39 : 11. 

The reason for this great judgment is to be found in a care- 
ful study of all the teaching on the subject. But this is in 
reality the judgment of Christ on his second advent, or a part 
of it. " And I will set my glory among the nations ; and all 
the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and 
my hand that I have laid upon them. V. 21. 



CHAPTER 32. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

The Gathering of the Nations at Jerusalem for the Great Battle — 
Christ's Judgment on Them — His Authority Established — 
Palestine and Jerusalem During the Thousand Years — The 
Condition of God's People During This Time — Wickedness 
Still Great in the Earth — Close of the Seventh Seal — End of 
Time — Satan Loosed Again for a Little Season — His Last 
Stand — The Last Test — The End of Satan, and His Host of 
Deceived Followers. 
THE JUDGMENTS AND RULE OF CHRIST. — CONTINUED. 

With such overwhelming evidence as that investigated, it 
would seem hardly necessary for any more, but we present 
one of the clearest and strongest as a final verdict to this 
momentous event. " For, behold, in those days, and in that 
time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and 
Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations, and will bring them 
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judg- 
ment upon them there for my people and for my heritage 
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations : and 
they have parted my land, and have cast lots for my people, 
and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, 
that they may drink." Joel 3 : 1-3. Here again we have 
the same prophecy declaring what Jesus will do after Israel 
has been restored, and how and why he will judge them. 

Continuing his prophecy he says : " Proclaim ye this among 
the nations ; prepare war ; stir up the mighty men ; let all 
the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your 
plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears : 
let the weak say, I am strong. Haste ye and come, all ye 
nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither 

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cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah. Let the 
nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Je- 
hoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round 
about. Put ye in the sickle : for the harvest is ripe : come, 
tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vat overflows; for 
their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley 
of decision : for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley 
of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the 
stars withdraw their shining. And Jehovah will roar from 
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens 
and the earth shall shake : but Jehovah will be a refuge unto 
his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. So 
shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion, 
my holy mountain : then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there 
shall no stranger pass through her any more." Joel 3 : 9-17. 

This great event decides the fate of the nations and estab- 
lishes the rule of Christ and his people forever. 

This is a marvelous pen picture of the judgment of Christ 
at his second coming, and clearly makes Jerusalem the center 
of his earthly government. 

PALESTINE AND JERUSALEM DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS. 

The authority of Christ and his people being now fully 
established on earth, let us look into the conditions that will 
exist for his people. The first thing that Joshua did when 
he entered the promised land was to discipline his people, 
circumcise them and set up the true worship of God. This 
will be the very thing; in the true scriptural sense, that Jesus 
will do with the Jews when he brings them back from among 
the nations where they have been scattered. (See the above 
used scripture.) Next Joshua conquered the land: we have 
seen how Jesus will do the same. Seven years Joshua was 
conquering the land, and the seven last tribes got their in- 
heritance. Seven denotes perfection, and must always be ap- 
plied to the antitype. The division of the land will be per- 



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feet and equal under Jesus' rule. (See map of the division 
of Palestine under Christ's reign, diagram No. 20.) 

The description of the temple and city as it is to be is care- 
fully given by Ezekiel, 40th to 48th chapters. Others add 
much information to it also. " There shall be no more curse 
on them, and a living fountain shall flow out from the temple 
of God at Jerusalem." Ezek. 47: 1-12; Zech. 14: 8; Joel 
3 : 18. This period and scriptures must not be confounded 
with Revelation 21st and 22nd chapters, as they allude to 
the period of time yet to follow this age of a thousand years. 
It will be seen that the land of the redeemed Israel will be 
no longer desert or barren, but exceedingly fertile and fully 
watered. The healing waters from the sanctuary will heal 
the waters of the Dead Sea and they will be filled with fish. 
Also on each side of the stream will there grow an abundant 
supply of trees for fruit, yielding their fruit monthly, and the 
leaves will be for healing. Ezek. 47: 6-12. 

Isaiah gives us a beautiful picture of the condition of God's 
people at this time. " For, behold, I create new heavens and 
a new earth ; and the former things shall not be remembered, 
nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in 
that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoic- 
ing, and her people a joy. And will rejoice in Jerusalem, 
and joy in my people ; and there shall be no more thence 
an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his 
days ; for the child shall die an hundred years old, and the 
sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. And they 
shall build houses and inhabit them ; and they shall plant 
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, 
and another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and another eat : 
for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and 
my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They 
shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity ; for they 
are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring 
with them. And it shall come to pass that, before they call, 



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I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 
The wolf and the lamib shall feed together, and the lion shall 
eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. 
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, 
saith Jehovah." Isa. 65 : 17-25. 

It will be thus seen that God will establish a strong, per- 
fect, central government, after the pattern of the type under 
Solomon's empire ; and through this the whole world will be 
reached and governed and blessed. Many nations will bring 
their contributions and wealth into Jerusalem, and go up to 
worship. The law for the governing of the nations will come 
from here and the art of war will be taught no more. Micah 
4: 1-8. All will be partakers of the great blessings that will 
follow the wise rule of the saints. " And every man shall 
sit under his vine and fig-tree and none shall make them 
afraid." 

THE WICKEDNESS OF THE EARTH STILL GREAT. 

Much wickedness will still be upon the earth during this 
period. But God's people will rule the nations, Rev. 2 : 26, 
27, and the wicked will be ruled instead of doing the ruling. 
They will receive severe punishment and much destruction 
and be kept under restraint until the end. In the seventh seal 
we find each one of the seven angels, with his trumpet and 
bowl, is sent forth for the destruction and chastisement of 
the wicked. Rev. 8: 1 to 10: 7; 11 : 15-18; 15: 5 to 16: 21. 
It would seem God's method to keep under restraint the wick- 
ed by these severe punishments. Isaiah says, " The sinner 
being a hundred years old shall be accursed." Isa. 65 : 20. 
Zechariah tells of the awful plagues God will visit on them 
that dared to lift up their hands against his people. Zech. 
14: 12-15. And the rest will go up and worship the Lord at 
Jerusalem. Zech. 14: 16-18. 

CLOSE OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. 

That the seventh seal brings time to a close is clearly 



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stated. " And the angel that I saw standing upon the 
sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven, 
and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who' created 
the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and 
the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are 
therein, that there shall be delay no longer : but in the days 
of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, 
then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good 
tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets." Rev. 
10: 5-7. 

We have been carefully noting what the prophets have said 
concerning these marvelous mysteries, and now we are ap- 
proaching the conclusion of the whole plan of " Creation, 
Time and Eternity." As we stand on the brink of a vast 
eternity, looking back at a world's few swift years in its 
evolution in the hands of its Maker, we pause to listen for 
the last bugle sound of the seventh angel that will close the 
mysteries of the ages. " And the seventh angel sounded ; 
and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, 
The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our 
Lord and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. 
And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their 
thrones, fell upon their faces and worshiped God, saying, 
We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art 
and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and 
didst reign. And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, 
and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, 
and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small 
and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth." 
Rev. 11: 15-18. 

In a few brief sentences we are led through the work of 
this seventh bugle blast in the hands of the seventh angel of 
the seventh seal, and find in these few lines marvelous things. 



284 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

LAST STAND OF THE DEVIL. HIS DESTRUCTION. 

We learn that the nations were wroth, and that God's 
wrath came, and the time to destroy them that destroy the 
earth: we have here then the time of the loosing of Satan 
again out of his pit in which he has been for a thousand years. 
" For after this he must be loosed for a little time." Rev. 
20: 3. This will be necessary for the final test and for the 
final cleansing of the earth. This has been God's plan in all 
the ages gone by, that men must be severely tested in order 
to weed out the worthless ones and the stubborn, proud, self- 
willed, disobedient sinners : and to prove his own and make 
them strong, and put them through the fire to extract the 
dross. " Every sacrifice is accepted by fire." 

" And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall 
be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive 
the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog 
and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number 
of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up over 
the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the 
saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out 
of heaven and devoured them. And the devil that deceived 
them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are 
also the beast and the false prophet ; and they shall be tor- 
mented day and night forever and ever." Rev. 20: 7-11. 
This is the final complete bruising of the serpent's head, and 
we find him sharing the fate of his two> lieutenants, the 
beast and the false prophet, who have already been in this 
place of torment a thousand years, or since the great battle 
at the beginning of Jesus' reign. " The beloved city " here 
referred to is Jerusalem, the capital of Jesus on earth, while 
the camp of the saints means wherever their enemies find 
them gathered together. The destruction of their enemies is 
swift, sure, and complete. 

This is the final " great day of the Lord," spoken of by 



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Peter, " when the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, 
and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the 
earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2 
Peter 3: 8-13. This is the day Malachi spoke of: "For, 
behold, the day cometh, it burnetii as a furnace ; and all the 
proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble ; and 
the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of 
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But 
unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness 
arise with healing in its wings ; and ye shall go forth, and 
gambol as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the 
wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet 
in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts." Mai. 4: 
1-3. The fire from heaven literally did this to the wicked in 
this their last stand against Jesus and his people. 

We have thus briefly followed the Revelator through the 
opening of the seven seals, and noted the mighty conception 
of the history of this world in its seven stages of development 
of the human family, until it has become " the Kingdom of 
our Lord and his Christ." We have seen an end to all 
things earthly, and if we have been careful students we have 
seen the fullness of the purpose of God in all things. Truly 
we can say with the Psalmist of old, " Great and marvelous 
are thy ways, and that my soul knoweth right well." 

"Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 
Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; 
The earth feared, and was still, 
When God arose to judgment, 
To save all the meek of the earth. 
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: 
The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee." 

—Psalm 76: 7-10. 



CHAPTER 33. 

Revelation. — Continued. 

The Close of the Seventh Seal— The Final Judgment— Basis Upon 
Which the Final Judgment Will Be Given — The Rule of Three 
the Basis of Final Judgment — Judgment of the Jews, Chris- 
tians, Reprobates and Heathens — The Saints Not Judged, but 
Will Be Judges— The Second DEATH— The Doctrine of An- 
nihilation — Who Share This Fate — Type of the Final Judgment 
— Sin Against the "Holy Spirit" — The Destruction of the 
Last Enemy — Time of the Final Rewards of the Faithful. 

THE FINAL JUDGMENT AND THE BASIS OF JUDGMENT. 

The seventh seal closes with the words of this judgment: 
" And the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to 
give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the 
saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the 
great ; and to destroy them that destroy the earth." Rev. 1 1 : 
18. This is the last verse of the seventh seal ; but here in 
the 20th chapter of Revelation we have the same thing and 
much fuller. We quote again : " And I saw a great white 
throne and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth 
and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for 
them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing 
before the throne ; and books were opened : and another book 
was opened, which is the book of life : and the dead were 
judged out of the things which were written in the books, 
according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead that 
were in it ; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in 
them: and they were judged every man according to their 
works. And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any 
was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the 

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lake of fire." Rev. 20: 11-15. This statement of the final 
judgment is brief but full. It is in full accord with all the 
scriptures of all the past ages. Let us notice first the basis 
of judgment. 

First— BOOKS WERE OPENED. The books of the 
records of them that were to be judged. The same as stated 
by Dan. 7 : 10. Malachi also says that, " A book of remem- 
brance was written before him, for them that feared Jeho- 
vah." Mai. 3: 16, 17. "The dead were judged out of those 
things that were written in the books, " according to their 
works." Rev. 20: 12. It was their works that were written 
in these books, and these formed the basis of the judgment 
rendered for, or against them. 

Second — " And another book was opened, which is the 
book of LIFE." This Book is the Bible. Jesus says, " He 
that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one 
that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall 
judge him in the last day." John 12: 48. This is con- 
clusive as to* the standard of law by which we will be judged. 
Jesus himself will be the great Supreme Judge who will render 
the final decision. He himself said, " For neither doth the 
Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto 
the Son." John 5 : 22. And again, Paul says, " We must all 
appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may 
receive the things done in the body, according to what he 
hath done, whether it be good or bad." 2 Cor. 5 : 10. 

THE RULE OF THREE AS A BASIS OF JUDGMENT. 

That the Lord Jesus Christ is more merciful than just, as 
man would see it, we must admit on the one hand : while on 
the other hand he is far more just than merciful as man would 
see it. But all of his final judgments will be according to the 
real truth. The very motive that governs the life in its deep- 
est recesses will be the determining factor in judgment. Je- 
sus says on this point that " Every idle word that men shall 



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speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judg- 
ment." " For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh." Matt. 12: 33-37. 

Then we will clearly see that the rule of three is the Bible 
basis of the final judgment, namely : — 

Our possibilities and our opportunities make our responsi- 
bilities to God, and form the basis of our eternal judgment. 

When we look over the world and see the countless millions 
who never heard of Christ, it is self-evident that all would 
not be judged by the same law. 

Let us hear Paul on this point: he has arraigned the whole 
world before God in Rom. 1 : 18-32, and accuses them of 
deliberately holding down the truth and casting God out of 
their hearts until he had to give them up, even though they 
are his own chosen people. Here is the standard of judgment 
he places for them. "'For there is no respect of persons 
with God. For as many as have sinned without the law shall 
also perish without the law : and as many as have sinned un- 
der the law shall be judged by the law ; for not the hearers 
of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall 
be justified (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by 
nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are 
the law unto themselves ; in that they show the works of 
the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing wit- 
ness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing 
or else excusing them) ; in the day when God shall judge the 
secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ." 
Rom. 2: 1-16. 

Here then we will have judgment rendered on the basis 
of the rule of three. The Jews that lived under the law 
will be judged by that law ; we who live under the open light 
of the teaching of Jesus will be judged by the perfect law of 
liberty; while those that have had neither will be judged by 
the above rule spoken of by Paul in Rom. 2 : 14-16. 

The question is often asked by a certain class of would- 



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be Christians, " Can or will the heathen be saved if we do 
not take them the gospel ? " Only those among them who 
are true to the best light of righteousness and purity that 
will stand the test as above. The question does not rest there, 
but with us : " Can we be saved if we do not give them the 
gospel light ? " He who refuses to go or help to send will 
certainly fall under condemnation for wilfully disobeying Je- 
sus. V 

The rest of the dead that lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished (Rev. 20: 5) are these persons who died 
without the light, and will be put as it were into the balances 
and weighed. Those that have sinned away their day of 
grace in the gospel light are reprobates and are the ones 
we find in hell at the judgment day. Rev. 20: 13-15. The 
saints who have washed their robes and made them white 
in the blood of the Lamb, will help to do the judging of the 
world. See 1 Cor. 6: 2, 3. Jesus himself gives us the full- 
est assurance of our immunity against a future judgment. 
" Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, 
and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh 
not into' judgment, but hath passed out of death into life." 
John 5 : 24-29. These are " The blessed and holy that have 
part in the first resurrection: over whom the second death 
has no power ; but have already lived and reigned with Christ 
a thousand years." Rev. 20: 6. 

THE SECOND DEATH. 

" The soul that sinneth it shall die." Ezek. 18 : 4, 20. This 
doctrine of the final disposition of the wicked, like all others 
of the Bible, is often badly misunderstood, and worse applied. 
All references in the Bible to the punishment of the wicked 
in hell ends at this the final judgment, with the declaration 
of the wicked (at the second coming of Christ) being cast into 
their prison-house of hell, " Where the worm dieth not and 
the fire is not quenched." Isa. 66: 24; Mark 9: 48. All ends 



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here where " Death and Hell deliver up their dead." Nothing 
is saved at all out of death and hell, all are reprobates, and 
"are cast into the lake of fire," which is "the SECOND 
DEATH, even the lake of fire." Rev. 20: 14. The test goes 
much farther than this. All " who were not found written 
in the book of life, were cast into the lake of fire." And as 
if to make it all clear beyond a doubt, a catalogue of those 
who would suffer this final death is added. " But for the 
fearful [those who are afraid to trust Jesus], and unbelieving 
[do not accept and obey him], and abominable [those who 
prove themselves generally worthless], and murderers, and 
fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their 
part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone ; 
which is the second death." Rev. 21 : 8. The second death 
is spoken of no less than four times in the book of Revelation : 
twice as a promise to the faithful, that it had lost its power 
over them (Rev. 2: 11; 20: 6), and twice it is held forth as 
the terrible and final fate of the wicked. Rev. 20: 14; 21 : 8. 

TYPE OF THE FINAL JUDGMENT. 

The law of Moses did not discriminate against its subjects, 
but those found guilty must suffer the extreme penalty of 
death, and that without mercy. Heb. 10: 26-31. "It is a 
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Pro- 
visions were made for minor offences, that restitution might 
be made, but all the grosser crimes were punished by death. 
The sin against the Holy Spirit is always reprobacy, and 
certain death. It is the grossest of all the existing crimes ; 
it is spiritual murder or suicide. Being born of the Spirit 
of the living God and then again going back into sin and 
not repenting thereof. See Heb. 6: 4-8; 10: 16-31; 2 Pet. 
2: 9-22; 1 John 5: 16, 17; James 5: 19, 20. These all allude 
to different phases of the same sin of death, and is the crime 
of " Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit," that Jesus charged 
the Jews of being guilty of. Matt. 12: 31-37. Those who 



292 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

really repented and got right with him were forgiven, but 
those who did not were spiritually dead, — reprobates. All 
sin hardens, and if not repented of will end in eternal death, 
the second death of the final judgment. 

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST ENEMY. 

" For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his 
feet. The last enemy that shall be abolished is death." 1 Cor. 
15: 25, 26. This last enemy is the second death of these 
wicked ones in the last judgment just noted. " And when all 
things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also 
himself be subject to him that did subject all things unto him, 
that God may be all in all." 1 Cor. 15: 28. 

THIS IS THE TIME OF THE REWARDS. 

" And the time to give rewards to thy servants the prophets, 
and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small 
and the great." Rev. 11: 18. This closes the events of the 
seventh seal. It closes the seven ages of mortal man, and 
ushers time into eternity. 



CHAPTER 34. 
Revelation. — Continued. 

Dawn of Eternity — The New Heaven and the New Earth — The 
Year of Jubilee — The Evolution of a World — The Final Resti- 
tution — The False Doctrine of Restitution — The Holy City 
the New Jerusalem — Creation Finished: Time Ended, Eternity 
Begun. 

CLOSE OF TIME, BEGINNING OF ETERNITY. 

" Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what 
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godli- 
ness, looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the 
day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire 
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat? But according to his promise, we look for a new 
heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
2 Pet. 3: 11-13. 

Here we have Peter giving us the statement of God's prom- 
ise of the new heavens and the new earth with only righteous- 
ness dwelling in it. This can not refer to the millennium, as 
we found it the greatest period of conflict ever waged on 
earth, and finished the beast, the false prophet, all the wicked, 
and the final doom of Satan himself was forever sealed ; and 
we were brought to the place of final cleansing at the close 
of that period. Rev. 20: 7-10. Following immediately after 
this we passed through the final judgment of all the earth and 
the last or second death. So we see that nothing remains 
now but the ones " whose names are written in the book of 
life." Rev. 20: 15. This is the final time, the last scene, the 
dawn of eternity. This is the time and place then where Je- 
sus will hand the kingdom back to the Father, having reigned 
until he has vanquished the last enemy, death, fulfilled the 

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first command that God gave to man (Gen. 1: 22, 28), and 
completely bruised the serpent's head (Gen 3: 13). 

We have passed out of the seventh stage of man and 
reached the seventh kingdom. (See "The seven kingdoms.") 
We have now come to the fiftieth year, the YEAR OF JUBI- 
LEE. (See Types of the year of jubilee. Diagrams No. 16, 
17 and 18.) 

In Revelation 21st and 22nd chapters we reach the climax 
of the seer's vision. We will here no longer see through a 
glass dimly. 1 Cor. 13: 9-12. Not even the rent veil of 
the temple will any longer interfere with our vision of the 
Holiest of Holies. All the cycles of " Creation, Time and 
Eternity," meet here. All types and shadows have passed 
away, and mortality has been swallowed up in immortality. 
" We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is." 

THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH. 

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first 
heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is 
no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming 
down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned 
for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he 
shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God : and he shall 
wipe away every tear from their eyes ; and death shall be 
no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor 
pain, any more : the first things are passed away. And he 
that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things 
new. And he saith, Write : for these words are faithful and 
true. And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am 
the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will 
give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of 
life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; 
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev. 21 : 1-7. 



REVELATION 295 

This is indeed marvelous beyond the conception of mortals. 
The language is positive ; no more types, no more parables ; 
the real, the substance has come. We have followed the Crea- 
tor in his evolution of a world and its creatures : again and 
again has it gone though the most marvelous transformation. 
No wonder that the geologist can not keep pace in his ef- 
forts to unfold even its surface, or the scientist to unlock the 
depths of its secrets. Since we have seen it populated by man, 
we have also seen it receive its baptism of water (the flood), 
and now in the end it receives its baptism of fire, and then its 
baptism 1 of the full harvest fruits of the work of the Holy 
Spirit of our Lord and his Christ. This is the final restitu- 
tion of all things, as the Creator foreordained from the be- 
ginning. 

But the shameful doctrine that would overthrow this plain 
and absolutely pure and honorable plan of redemption as 
God has given it, and make his justice wholly an abortive 
farce, and fill heaven with the wicked, has no place at all in 
the economy of the grace of God. God has positively de- 
clared that " There shall in no wise enter into it anything un- 
clean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie : but only 
they that are written in the Lamb's book of life." Rev. 21 : 
27. To make sure that no such mistaken doctrine might 
gain the least shadow of a sanction from Jesus, he adds the 
addenda to the vision, beginning at Rev. 22: 6-20, in which 
he gives us the most solemn warning. We quote again : 

" He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still : 
and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still : and he that 
is righteous, let him do righteousness still : and he that is 
holy, let him be made holy still. Behold, I come quickly ; and 
my reward is with me, to render to each man according as 
his work is. . . . Blessed are they that wash their robes, 
that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and 
may enter in by the gates into the city." Rev. 22: 11-15. 
And in the verse following he tells us that all the evil workers 



296 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

are never admitted at all. Jesus gave us the key to it all 
when he said, " Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." 
Luke 13 : 3. Let this doctrine of the final " Restoration of 
all things that God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy 
prophets" (Acts 3: 21) remain where Jesus puts it himself 
in Rev. 21 and 22, and it is in perfect harmony and keeping 
with all the law, and the prophets, and it is indeed the full- 
est realization of the Christian's hope of glory. 

THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM. 

The city of Jerusalem, ever since David made it his capital, 
has stood as the type of the completed city, which we find 
here coming down from heaven, fully finished and prepared 
for its place. A careful description of it is given. John has 
attempted to describe it by things known to mortal man, but 
we have no power of conception or imagination fully to grasp 
it. "It had the glory of God in it." Rev. 21: 11. A light 
whose brilliancy would make the sun in his strength a dark 
object. The names on the gates of the city are the same as 
in Ezekiel's temple of the millennium ; but we find the names 
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb in the foundation, show- 
ing truly that " We are built on the apostles and prophets, 
Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone." Eph. 2: 
20. The size of the city, and height of the walls around it, 
the material of its construction, all are carefully given. " And 
the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass." The whole city 
was a temple, a place for the Father and his children. "And the 
city hath no need for the sun, neither the moon, to shine upon 
it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof 
is the Lamb." " There shall be no night there." 

We close this marvelous scene with the complete cycle. 
We found man in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, with 
a right to the tree of life, which right was lost to him through 
disobedience. Here we find those who have obtained that 
right again through obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ. Rev. 



REVELATION 297 

22: 14. " And he showed me a river of water of life, bright 
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the 
Lamb in the midst of the streets thereof. And on this side 
of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve 
manner of fruit, yielding its fruit every month : and the leaves 
of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there 
shall be no curse any more : and the throne of God and of 
the Lamb shall be therein : and his servants shall serve him ; 
and they shall see his face ; and his name shall be on their 
foreheads. And there shall be night no more : and they need 
no light of lamp, neither light of the sun ; for the Lord God 
shall give them light : and they shall reign for ever and ever." 
Rev. 22: 1-5. EVEN SO, LORD JESUS, COME QUICK- 
LY. AMEN. 



CHAPTER 35. 
The Threefold Life of Man and Its Powers. 

Diagram No. Twentyone — Body, Soul and Spirit — Mind the 
Medium of Control — The Holy Spirit in Control — Jesus Has 
Lived Our Life, With the Spirit Life Added to Give Us a Per- 
fect Example — The Three Temptations — First Temptation, 
the Lust of the Flesh — Second Temptation, Presumptuous- 
ness — Satan's Trap — The Third Temptation, Covetousness — 
Persecution, Satan's Last Weapon to Destroy Us — Victory 
Through the Holy Spirit. 

Below we give a diagram of the " Threefold life of man 
and its powers." 

Beginning first with the little child, we find it composed 
of an undeveloped body, an embryonic mind, and like a grain 
or seed it also has the possobility of a reproductive life of 
its kind. It has much more. Man stands at the top of all 
of God's created beings, and belongs to the fifth or human 
kingdom; with the added birthright of becoming a member 
of the sixth kingdom, or the kingdom of heaven. Naturally 
he has only a body controlled by a natural mind or life, or 
soul if you please, as it is so termed by Paul. " And the God 
of peace sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul 
and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming 
of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thess. 5 : 23. Here he desig- 
nates the three parts of the reborn man. 

First, we have the body : " That which is born of the flesh 
is flesh." John 3:6. " The first man is of the earth, earthy." 
1 Cor. 15: 47. While the human body is vastly superior to 
that of any creature below him, and is a copy or image of 
its Maker, yet its composition is derived from that which is 
below him, and must return to it again. Yet its organical 

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300 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Diagram. No. 21. 





1st 
the 
Being 


2nd 

the 

Medium 


3rd 

the 
Power 


4th 

the 

MOTIVE 


5th 

the 

FRUITS 


6th 

the 

RESULTS 


1 . The Kingdom 
of Christ 


Christ 


Holy 
Spirit 


Spiritual 


Mercy 


Love, Teace 


Eternal Life 


2. The Human 
Kingdom 


Man 


Mind 


Law: 
Judicial 


Justice 


Self- gratification] Death 


3. Animal 
Kingdom 


Animal 


Body 


Natural: 
Physical 


Revenge 


Extermination Death 



Read the above diagram from the lowest up, thus: Animal. The 
medium through which it acts is the natural instincts, the craving- of 
the body; be it hunger, lust of the flesh, pain, cold or heat, or any- 
thing that prompts it to act. Its powers are purely physical, bodily 
strength. The motive in its control of other creatures is mostly re- 
venge, governed by brute force. 5th. — The result is extermination of 
its enemies, neither love nor mercy being exercised sufficiently to spare 
its victims; it is governed by hunger, rage, or natural desire to kill. 
Nearly all the earlier races perished by their conquerors. The result 
is Eternal Death. The second line shows man in his highest develop- 
ment in the natural life, governed by a mutual law of protection in 
order to secure justice. It also ends in eternal death. The top line is 
the Christ-man, explained in this chapter. 

construction is greatly superior, and its possibilities under a 
guiding, intelligent, trained mind are great. 

The soul, or natural life. " So also it is written, The first 
Adam became a living soul." 1 Cor. 15 : 45. God his Maker 
breathed this life into him; this was his first or natural life. 

The Spiritual life, or eternal life, was brought from heaven 
by Jesus. " The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." 1 
Cor. 15: 45-49. 

Paul's prayer for the Thessalonian brethren was that they 
might be preserved blameless in all three of these : " Body, 
Soul and Spirit." In these three lie the great battles of the 
Christian's life, and the enemy's power to* tempt and destroy 
his victims. Right laws produce right results, and make the 
one living up to their requirements of the greatest possible 
use for time and eternity. Each of these beings is dependent 
upon another, so that to violate one law is an injury to all, for 
the three are ONE. 

Jesus told Nicodemus, " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- 
cept one be born anew, he can not see the kingdom of God." 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 301 

John 3 : 3. The Jewish religion was moral and political, but 
lacked the Holy Spirit, which alone can come through the 
power of Christ. It punished the physical man for his sins, 
and rose to the plane of justice, but not to love and mercy; 
while the law of Jesus, which is spiritual, does ; it is the very 
embodiment of love and mercy. " Ye have heard that it was 
said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy ; but 
I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that 
persecute you ; that ye may be the sons of your Father who 
is in heaven." Matt. 5 : 43-48. 

Jesus' great sermon on the mount is truly a law for a spir- 
itual man and must ever remain a dead letter for the carnal 
or natural man. It has not in it the elements of revenge, 
which is the animal instinct; neither has it even the elements 
of justice, the human instinct of right and honor; but the 
Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, " Love and Mercy." " I 
desire mercy and not sacrifice." Matt. 9: 12, 13. This is 
the motto of the Christian who is possessed with his Master's 
spirit. Paul tells us, " If any man has not the spirit of Christ 
he is none of his." Rom. 8 : 9. He who lacks this spirit of 
his Master, is not yet born from above, is yet carnal or earthly- 
minded, and dead to the third or spiritual life which makes 
the divine law of Jesus acceptable to him; otherwise it is in- 
deed " foolishness to him." 1 Cor. 2 : 14. 

THE MIND. 

" For the mind of the fles'h is death ; but the mind of the 
spirit is life and peace : because the mind of the flesh is en- 
mity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, 
neither indeed can it be; and they that are in the flesh can 
not please God. But ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit, 
if so be that the spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any 
man hath not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Rom. 
8 : 6-9. Interpret this 8th chapter of Romans by the above 
diagram. 



302 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

We find the mind always the medium through which we 
are and must be governed ; and it depends altogether how that 
mind is governed as to what kind of a life we live. The un- 
regenerated mind will walk after the flesh, that is, it will 
really want the things that the flesh desires, to fully gratify 
itself with, and will seek how it may fulfill its unlawful lusts 
and passions, and revels in sin and such pleasures. The re- 
generated mind will deny itself and will seek to obey God. 
Jesus says, " If any man will come after me let him' deny 
himself, then take up his cross and follow me." Matt. 16: 
24. This is walking after the Spirit of God, to leave the old, 
dead, sinful body of flesh hang on the cross of self-denial and 
follow after the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what it means 
to walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh; to' have the 
mind of Christ and to be his. 

True, the body always captures the mind first in the child. 
This must needs be in the natural laws of development. A 
child may always first be bought by its appetite, and later the 
sexual passions sway it, quickly followed by pride, presump- 
tiveness, and unless checked, it soon goes the way of all un- 
regenerated flesh. Education, refinement and culture may do 
much, but can not save human beings, as all past ages have 
so clearly shown. Nothing can save but the Spirit and the 
law of Jesus Christ, from an awful impending doom. " To 
be simply naturally-minded is death," — no escaping it. Again, 
Paul tells the Galatian brethren, " Walk by the Spirit, and 
ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Gal 5: 16. The 
only hope possible for the redemption of a fallen human race 
is to translate them into the next kingdom above them ; and 
teach them to live no longer after the lustful desires of the 
flesh, but sacrifice all on the altar of loving obedience and 
service, to the glory of God and salvation of their fellow-man. 

Jesus has come into the world and lived the human life 
to show us how we ought to live, and follow in his steps. 
He has lived it, and then also carefully taught it, so that 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 303 

we have these two witnesses to guide us into the true spirit 
life, and to tell us when we are really " walking in the light 
as he was in the light." 1 John 1:7. " For we have not a 
high priest that can not be touched with the feeling of our 
infirmities ; but one that hath been in all points tempted like 
as we are, yet without sin." Heb. 4: 15. Being tempted in 
all points like as we are makes him able to help us to con- 
quer and overcome even as he did. Jesus was without sin 
because he never yielded to sin in any form, but lived a true 
life of self-denial as a pattern for us. 

JESUS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE AS WE ARE: BODY, SOUL 

AND SPIRIT. 

At the opening of the ministry of our Lord, he received bap- 
tism at the hands of John the Baptist, and the Holy Spirit at 
his Father's hands ; this is the way he enters upon his work 
in the kingdom of heaven. Here then we have the three be- 
ings, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all present at his induction 
into his work. And in Jesus we have 1st, Body, 2nd, Soul, 
or natural life, same as we all have (see Heb. 2: 14-18), 3rd, 
his baptism of the Holy Spirit, the same that every reborn 
child of God is heir to when he enters the kingdom of heaven. 

Let us turn to the diagram, and under the first head we 
find the being 1st, animal, 2nd, man, 3rd, Christ. All three 
of these were in him, the same as. in us. 

In column No. 2, we have the medium through which the 
governing powers, as well as all the temptations come. The 
animal nature is governed by the cravings, or desires, or the 
real, lawful needs of the body. The mind may be, and in 
fallen man often is governed by the passions of the body; 
but in the real, true, natural man it will even live above that, 
— a lawful, honest, self-denying life. This is the real moral 
man, and is just, yet not spiritual, and is governed only by 
the natural life and will end in eternal death. 

The third, in this second column, is the Holy Spirit, or 



304 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

Spirit of Christ. ' To be spiritually minded is life and peace." 
When the Holy Spirit governs us, guides, and teaches, all is 
well with body, soul and spirit. This lifts us up and makes us 
sons of God, children of God, " Heirs of God, and joint-heirs 
with Christ." Rom. 8: 17. 

THREEFOLD POWERS OF MAN. 

That body, soul and spirit each have their needs is true, 
and all have been provided for by an allwise God: but their 
misuse and abuse is sin, and ends in death. Jesus has come 
to teach us and show us by his own life how all the true 
functions of the God-life may predominate again. After his 
baptism he is led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be 
tempted of the devil. Matt. 4: 1-11 records his three temp- 
tations by the devil. He first fasted forty days and nights, 
and in this famished state Satan comes to tempt him in his 
hunger. This would be his weakest point, as it is in all 
mortal flesh. Adam and Eve were overcome while surround- 
ed with everything their hearts could wish, through this temp- 
tation of the appetite. While Satan conquered them thus, 
in their surroundings of plenty, Jesus meets him* with a 
starved body and conquers him. This temptation is of the 
flesh, and is the weakest point of it. More human beings 
go down to ruin through the appetite than any other one sin. 
But this sin here may well represent the whole body, for 
through fasting and prayer, every lust and passion of the flesh 
may and can be brought into subjection. This is what Paul 
means when he says, " They that are Christ's have crucified 
the flesh with the lusts and affections thereof." Gal. 5 : 24. 
Jesus' answer to the devil, " It is written, Man shall not 
live by bread alone, but by every word that prQceedeth out 
of the mouth of God" (Matt. 4: 4), is quoted from Deut. 
8: 3. 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 305 

2nd temptation: the natural man. presumptuousness. 

After Satan fails to cause the fall of Jesus in the tempta- 
tion of the flesh, he again challenges him : " If thou be the Son 
of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his 
angels charge concerning thee : On their hands they shall 
bear thee up, lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone." 
Matt. 4: 6. It is quoted in part by Satan from Psalm 91: 
11, 12. But he misquoted this so as to leave out the full 
qualifying sense. " To keep thee in all thy ways " he omitted, 
thus making it a positive snare and trap, had it been used as 
Satan quoted it to Jesus. The place was Jerusalem, and on 
the pinnacle of the temple, and would be in the sight of many 
of Jesus' people whom he had come to> rescue. The temp- 
tation would be a challenge to Jesus to prove right then and 
there to the people that he was the real Christ. 

Satan seeks to back it up with scripture this time, as Jesus 
used the scriptures to< refute his former temptation. Jesus' 
answer is again from, the scriptures. " Again it is written, 
Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God." Matt. 4: 
7, quoted from Deut. 6: 16. The unquoted part, " To keep 
thee in all thy ways," was the part of scripture Jesus obeyed, 
and it saved him from yielding to the deceptive trap Satan had 
set for him. It would have been gross presumptiveness for 
Jesus to' yield to him. He could not have done it without 
tempting God as Adam and Eve had done, and bringing ruin 
to himself. He would have been self-willed and disobedient. 
It was a direct appeal to the natural man to usurp his own 
authority and still claim God's protection, just as multitudes 
are doing today, who wrest the scriptures to their own de- 
struction. 2 Pet. 3 : 16. 

No greater sin will ever be charged to mortal man, than 
his wilful disregard, misuse and abuse of God's Word. It 
has been the author's privilege to listen to, and read ser- 
mon upon sermon in which the qualifying sense of the scrip- 



306 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

ture was wholly or in part omitted, thus making God's Word 
a snare and trap in the devil's hand for the deluding and 
destruction of other souls. It is the same sin and the same 
trap in which he caught our foreparents in the Garden of 
Eden. " Thou shalt NOT surely die." Believe it, and you 
will disobey; disobey, and you will sin; sin and you will pay 
the penalty of death, except you repent. Well has David 
summed up this sin in his prayer to God for deliverance: 

" Keep back also thy servant from presumptuous sins ; Let 
them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, 
And I shall be clear from the great transgression." Psalm 
19: 13. Adam's transgression is the great transgression. He 
made out God a liar by believing the devil, and was trapped 
through the lust of the flesh. The first two beings were tempt- 
ed and fell ; Satan also first tempts Jesus the same, but meets 
a man now that has in him the Spirit of God and is spiritually- 
minded and Spirit-controlled. Had he been no more than the 
first Adam, he too would have been powerless to cope with 
his well-trained adversary: but he had just been baptized 
with the life-giving Spirit, fresh from his Father. Herein 
lies every Christian's strength to resist the arch fiend of his 
spirit, soul and body. 

THE THIRD AND LAST TEMPTATION. COVETOUSNESS. 

" Jesus said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves 
from all covetousness." The third time the devil took him 
unto an exceeding high mountain, and from the top of this 
lofty eminence he showed him " all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them'." Matt. 4: 8. He offers all this 
to Jesus if he will fall down and worship him. This is the 
last and greatest temptation of the three. True, it required 
the Worship of the devil, but it would give Jesus the world 
and all its wealth and power, according to the offer just made 
(and in this the devil has much power and dominion). This 
was the purpose for which he had come into the world, to be 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 307 

a King, and here he would not have to oppose the powers 
that be, but be the head and prince over them all. 

Do not say it was no temptation, for those who would dis- 
dain to fall by the lust of the flesh or through presumptuous- 
ness, and arrive clean even thus far, which would make of 
them an ideal moral man, are tempted above measure when 
it comes to wealth, power and glory. Many of our best and 
brightest of earth lose out right here. It has been said, that 
every man has a price on his head ; yet there are Samuels and 
Daniels living yet, and always have been, but they are not 
many comparatively. In these three temptations, then, are 
the three powers of man, God and demons tested. Man in 
the beginning lost his power to resist Satan by his yielding 
to him, but here in Jesus we have a triumph over the flesh, 
the natural man, and the spirit of devils. Oh, that all might 
ever be able to say in triumph with Jesus, " Get thee hence, 
Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy 
God, and him only shalt thou serve." Matt. 4: 10. If they 
could and would do so in spirit and truth, then Satan would 
leave them and then angels would minister unto them as they 
did unto Jesus. Matt. 4: 11. 

THE LAST AND FINAL TEST OF THE POWERS OF MAN. 

The devil leaves Jesus for a season, says Luke 4: 13, after 
he had completed every temptation. He could not cause him 
to fall by his cunningly devised trickery and traps, so he de- 
vises new ones, and lies in wait to test him at every point 
where a chance of success might seem probable. Failing all 
along through Jesus' ministry to be able to withstand him, 
but being cast out at every point of contact, he now declares 
war upon him to the bitter end. This he accomplishes through 
Jesus' own people, who prove untrue to him. Yet not without 
as it were a permit from God, to fully establish his power 
over all the works of Satan, after Satan had done all to Je- 



308 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

sus to destroy him that he had ever done to any and all of 
God's servants, from the beginning to this time. 

In his last victory Jesus shows him his completed power, in 
rising from the dead. Here again he has all three of his 
powers tested to their utmost. 
THE FINAL test of the "THREE POWERS OF MAN." 

The lamb, which was the type of Jesus, that was of- 
fered in sacrifice had to be perfect and without blemish or it 
would be rejected. See Deut. 15: 21. So was Jesus perfect 
in every particular, " a Lamb without blemish, and without 
spot." 1 Pet. 1: 19. 1. In body. His body was to be offered 
as a living sacrifice for us, therefore it was said of him, " A 
body didst thou prepare for me." Heb. 10: 5. God asks us 
also to give our bodies unto him as " a living sacrifice, holy 
and acceptable unto him,, which is our reasonable service," 
Rom. 12: 1, 2, as a fit temple for his Holy Spirit to dwell in. 
1 Cor. 3 : 16. " He who defiles the temple [his body] of 
God, him will God destroy." 

2. He was perfect in mind. That Jesus' mental faculties 
were as nearly perfect as it was possible for those of a human 
being to be, is certainly true. Again and again we have him 
reading men as an open book ; and he knew all things also as 
a prophet, being led and guided by the Spirit of his Father. 
His mind was wholly in subjection to the Spirit, and herein 
lay his mental subjective powers, which always enabled him 
to say, even in his sorest trials, " Not my will, but thine be 
done." He had the fullest self-control over mind and body, 
because self was constantly under the control of the Holy 
Spirit of God, and thus kept under complete subjection. This 
is the power, " To be spiritually minded," to long after. Let 
us search out the will of God and do only those things that are 
pleasing in his sight. See 1 John 3 : 22 ; John 12 : 47-50. 

Body and mind must be clay in the potter's hands, as a little 
child to be led and guided and moulded by the Holy Spirit 
of God, in obedience to his will. 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 309 

3. Jesus was born of the Spirit of God. This is the third 
and spiritual power, and the only one that conquers death. 
John tells us that " There are many spirits gone out into the 
world." 1 John 4: 1-6. We should test them by the rule John 
gives us in these verses. " We are of God : he that knoweth 
God heareth us ; he who is not of God heareth us not. By 
this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." 
Verse 6. To hear and obey Jesus and to walk after the same 
Spirit that he did, is to have the Spirit of God within. us, and 
fits and qualifies us for his great work, " sanctified and 
cleansed, meet for the Master's work." 

JESUS' LAST TEST. 

We see Jesus coming to Jerusalem for his last time, com- 
ing deliberately, calmly, but surely to his death. Matt. 16: 
21; 20: 17-19. Let us look at this final tragic act, in the 
light of the three powers. He could easily have gone away 
and used his bodily powers to save himself, or if his kingdom 
had been of this world he could easily have rallied a mighty 
army and defeated his foes. See John 18 : 36. This is the 
bodily power and animal instinct, and must be held in com- 
plete subjection. It was this that was yet in Peter that caused 
Jesus to have him take a sword along down to the garden 
with him where he was to be betrayed. See Matt. 26: 31-35; 
Luke 22: 35-38, 49-51. " Put up thy sword," is the command 
of Jesus, Matt. 26 : 52. No more brute force for the children 
of the kingdom of heaven, " Not a carnal warfare, but a war- 
fare against carnality." First in self, second in that of others. 
All to be subject only to the third or spiritual man, be it 
life or death to the natural man. So we see Jesus completely 
laid aside all the powers of the natural bodily man, and " be- 
came obedient even unto death." Again the second power, 
the Judicial or Roman law and power was at his command, 
and he could have proved by an innumerable host of witnesses, 
that he always did only good and no unlawful thing, and ap- 



310 CREATION, TIME AND ETERNITY 

pealed to the Roman authorities for protection as Paul did, 
Acts 25 : 10, and the Jewish council would have had no power 
to put him to death. John 18: 31. 

But had he vindicated his cause in either the physical power, 
and thus escaped death, or the judicial power, and escaped 
death, he would have destroyed every vestige of the spiritual 
power to conquer death, and rise again from the dead, after 
the first two powers had done all they could to destroy him 
and keep him 1 in the grave. The third power was also 
wholly at his command and he could have escaped them even 
by it. "Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, 
and he shall even now send me more thai twelve legions of 
angels ? " This is the highest power in heaven or earth, and 
Jesus had the right to appeal to it if he chose to do so, and 
he could escape the shameful death that was awaiting him, 
and be avenged on his enemies. He could be honorably ac- 
quitted, establish his temporal power, but lose his own real 
spiritual power, the very thing he came to establish. Jesus 
asks, " How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus 
it must be? " Matt. 26: 53, 54. We see then how Jesus was 
not brought under any one of the three powers, to save him- 
self, but completely subordinated all to his Father's will. 

Again at the resurrection of Jesus we see the three powers. 
A band of soldiers, backed by the Roman government, at the 
request of the spiritual powers that be, the Jewish Sanhedrin ; 
all arrayed against Jesus to see that he is kept in the tomb. 
The soldiers represent the physical power. The Roman seal 
placed on Jesus' tomb by the authority of Pilate, the Roman 
governor, represents the judicial power of Rome; while the 
Jewish Sanhedrin, or council, represents the fallen spiritual 
power of the old dead Jewish church. But look at them now ; 
at the sight of one angel the soldiers become as dead men. 
Matt. 28 : 4. The stone bearing the official seal of the highest 
judicial power on earth is thrown back as if in contempt, and 
the angel sits upon it. Matt. 28 : 2. The Jews in dismay give 



THREEFOLD LIFE OF MAN 311 

a large bribe to the soldiers to lie about it, this always being 
the last resort of the devil's power. 

There stands Jesus. Not the bleeding, suffering, heart- 
broken, dying Savior of the world, no : but the triumphant, 
living, resurrected CHRIST. Is he not entitled to be called 
" KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS "? Rev. 19: 
16. He can, and does now say, to his apostles and all of his 
true followers, for all the ages to come, " All authority has 
been imparted to me, in Heaven and on Earth. Go, disciple 
All the NATIONS, immersing them into the NAME of the 
FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY SPIRIT; 
teaching them to observe all things which I have enjoined 
upon you ; and, behold, I am with you all the DAYS, till the 
CONSUMMATION of the AGE." Matt. 28: 18-20. (Wil- 
son's Emphatic Diaglott.) Even so, Lord Jesus, come quick- 
ly.— AMEN. 



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